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hello the following book is read by a
text-to-speech program the name of the
book is the road to lebanon as
mindfulness progresses in kindness
loving through desire
conscious calm until the
awakening written by david leigh
johnson copyright copyright 2021 david
johnson all rights reserved
published by billy shia publishing
Spanish translation and proofreading 2021
José Luis Poveda Alfaro and Grisel Salazar
luis other books by david johnson
written in the name of ban te vi malara
msi a guide to practice
introspective wisdom meditation
calm the holy life friend bisacca se
bases in nirvana culminates in nirvana
ends in they were at maximum or fell 44 q
la veda days utah thanks i want
recognize the venerable ban i saw you wrong
they will do if matera from whom I learned this
banteur practice and they will do badly if it is the
drum founder will we do min 6
meditation twin que in spanish
we translate as meditation of
understanding of the
quiet without his skilful guidance this
project would not be possible
descriptions of many of the desires
come from late-night talks offered
by the venerable beat malara msi on
the nape of his ta m n-111 was his arduous
work through years of intense
meditation practice and discussions
with many of the most venerable monks
of the world which led him on a
completely different direction returned
to the early Buddhist teachings
if you are in the canon for read for
practice what he himself had
taught his own disciples to
from this he discovered you and me has
Given this gift of true lady desire
thank the venerable for reviewing
this work and correct the
misunderstandings that may have arisen
i also credit vick woody for his
work the middle link speeches of the
buddha a 36 in of the magi manica already
winston publications somerville ma 1995
the beach audivic unite molly this
book with some exceptions is the basis
of the twin meditation practice
thanks also to brenda
Macri who wrote a summary of a
page based on interviews
students of what they experienced
meditator as iii custom meditators
who were advancing in the process of
meditation on seeing the need for
document the different levels of
practice broaden your summary to reach
to the book that you are now reading also
thanks to tel and paul paul johnson mark and
andrew berger da craft and j del mar
who helped with editing and for
your many helpful suggestions thanks to
s jordan who did the beautiful cover
with its unique design introducing the
The purpose of this book is to help the
serious seeker and advanced meditator to
understand the experiences and
signs on the path of the buddha who has
as objective the destruction of desire and
the removal of ignorance
I want to document these experiences
for the meditation community so that
can be studied and preserved as
a guide for future meditators this
book was also written so that
meditators and meditators without access to
master bars in your area may have
all instructions and can
continue down this path on your own
all instructions on how
meditate on all levels are here
there are no secret techniques withheld and
considered hidden only the words
of the routes and comments of the venerable
I saw you malara mbps and in this book
also in the instruction guide for
beginners a guide to
beginners to meditation
comprehension of quiet wisdom a
beginner's guide to reassured mini
site meditation the band i saw you malar am
yes and myself is all integrated and
provides instructions for the
beginning meditator
if you are familiar with the
start instructions you can go to
the advanced chapters section on
hannah yes when you are starting you
you jam and you just can't feel
this loving kindness to yourself
take a look at the brochure that banteur
and they will do badly if he provides at the end of this
book titled a guide to
forgiveness meditation try this
meditation and find out for yourself if
possible blockages are not loosened
emotions from past traumas of your
bosses or other memories related to
the terrifying forgiveness can be a
dog
perfect to experience the goodness
loving in a warm and flowing way in
I will put some places in the book
meditation instruction to do
notice students who are using
this book as an instructional guide
progressive instructions on how
proceeding with wim practice is a
fancy name for basically the
bram abyara practice starting with
goal or loving-kindness as object
breathing can be used but tends to
make slower progress these
instructions are taken directly from
the meditation methods described in
quotes the first teachings
buddhists
wim is the practice that will lead us to ni
go to how it is described in the texts
we will see that when we follow the
instructions there are immediate results
as the buddha presented the way
the CNI will elaborate both the objective
such as the practice of meditation
as explained by the buddha its purpose is
follow the progress of the practice
as explained in the routes themselves for
that the clearest map is my magnet and
fell mn number 111 the annotated his is
translated as one by
just as they happened this his is
shows how progress occurs step by step
step until you get to ni go to this is the
map we will use as we go along
in the levels of understanding of this
book the routes of the canon to read it
go back two thousand five hundred and fifty
years ago to the same wood at the
scholars consider them the words of the
buddha as uttered
originally qualifying a little more
previous it is believed that the buddha spoke maga
of that was his native language such and is
a form of that language and later
all routes were documented in
Pali first reciting the and then
putting them in writing by the members of
the Buddhist order itself and the ncaa were
written on palm leaves around the
year 80 before Christ- as
were written the monks who had
memorized the routes reviewed the
written texts in search of words
added or incorrect the utah se
inscribed on stone tablets in
mandalay burma and are still being
memorized and recited by monks
Buddhists in Burmese monasteries this has
continued from the first council of
500
greater that will make summoned three months
after the death of the buddha visit
this interesting place in burma in
2003 and I saw the white marble stones
with these same inscriptions groups of
monks memorize together the texts of the
sut a monk recites and the rest of the
group reviews and corrects as
advance this method has been so foolproof
like any other to be able to retain
original texts for long
time periods write appointments
may be subject to bad
translator's interpretation of what
words to use to describe the
practice with precision but even with
this method may have been
errors that have slipped in despite what
perfect that was this system really
We cannot know for sure since
we were not there and it was more than 25 years ago
centuries
so we use these routes as the guide
direct closest to what actually
taught the buddha there are many schools
Buddhists and many beliefs and practices
different all we can do is
find what meditation practice
matches the words of the buddha
the practice of your new month in the
sense that it has been rediscovered in
the shoot ace is not practiced very
widely still what it seems
quite amazing
in fact the venerable band saw you wrong
they will do yes and their authorized teachers are
the only ones that directly teach
starting from the sutras like this
others refer to routes but
they don't follow them accurately
wim is the real and proper application of the
right effort this is the reason for your
resultant success i will discuss about this
later changes have been made to
other practices for allegedly
improve meditation instructions
of the buddha but wait a minute he was
the buddha is not a bit presumptuous to think
How can the instructions be improved?
of a buddha after all he was from
made the tata gata supremely
awake who had perfected his
wisdom for countless lifetimes
Let's try to put aside all the other
techniques for now and let's focus on
how to practice as described in
the first teachings as close
possible from the actual words of the buddha
most of us
agree that the canon for
read and his routes are the teachings
buddha's real then let's go to them
and only them to find the way
to practice the cnop fairies utah m
n-111 explains the progress of the
meditation through the healthy and the
four fundamentals of mindfulness
at the same time here it will be shown that
you are healthy when you practice how you
teaches in the shoot as they will take us to the
arouse the desire described in it
grouped utah should not be confused with
the states of concentration that
commonly taught elsewhere
ours are the desire for conscience
quiet quiet orphans
they teach in the appointments in which they
maintains awareness of mind and
body its foundation is the recollection
o gathering not concentration something
that we will deal with later are these
conscious desire that they have been re
discovered the key to a new
understanding of the buddha's teachings
the technique to vima the one that is done
reference in this book uses as
Your guide is main the speeches
mid-length of the buddha a
translation of maxim
orbitz woody and big join molly banteur
and malar am if you feel that this is the
closest translation available
although sometimes he prefers expressions
different for example use the word
usual trend instead of
to become or to come we will talk more
about this later we will combine here
explanation of the meaning of the
routes with the real experiences of the
many meditators and meditators who have
practiced and have been successful in addition
We will try to explain some of the
reasons why certain things happen
subtle experiences and phenomena though
only the buddha knows for sure
phenomena such as the most subtle links
of the dependent origin found
deep in thought processes
have been excluded these phenomena are
so that the student and the student
find out for themselves and he doesn't
describing them here will not change the pace
of the student's progress to explain
certain phenomena before the student
be ready to see them you can create
false expectations and misconceptions
and many students later
they are grateful that they are not there
explained where they are in their practice of
the desire only wants to progress and not
think and analyze while practicing
could develop some sense of
pride with thoughts as i am in
this hannah or that hannah can have
some familiarity with the practice of
meditation and some may arise
presumptions and getting stuck
thinking about how advanced they are
when they are just beginners in this
type of practice it is better not to know where
you're in practice and just follow the
instructions especially if you are in
an intensive retreat if you are looking for
an even deeper understanding of how
practice works more descriptions
of perceptions and levels of
emerging understanding and references
from sut a that support this meditation
you can read one of the following books
meditations life life is meditation
which provides information on
depth and detail the book breath
of love and lady in motion volume
Volume 1 also offers a guide apt to
as one goes deeper into the practice
all these books have been written
the venerable band I saw you bad aram if mi
purpose is to write down the steps
to follow until awakening progress
through levels of understanding
until I wake up I have the
hope that this knowledge can
be transmitted be studied in the future and
not to miss this book is based on the
methods and results based on the su
you are who followed the venerable banteur and
malar am si using texts from his
various talks and taking advantage of my
own personal experiences
related to this practice
practices today include influences
brahmanical new age method e
even a new version of Buddhism in
which the Buddha himself begins to
disappearing from the pages this is called
secular Buddhism or simply
mindfulness mindfulness not to mention
to the Buddha the core of the teachings of the
buddha has mixed with psychology
western and even the word
mindfulness is no longer used in the way
that the buddha intended a goal
important part of this book is to show how
the teaching of Buddhism as taught
has currently deviated from the
ideas presented in the sutras
deviated from what the buddha taught
history we are going to explore among others
things what the Buddha taught us in his
own words based on quotes from
awaken both mind and body
the dependent origin the definition of
mindfulness what is meditation
calm wisdom understanding
twins
what are the six r's two types of
win win absorption and win
aware of the progress through the
healthy until they don't go at four
stages of holiness
chapter 1 what is Buddhism a few years ago
the village realized that the
suffering was experienced
universally by all beings
discovered that there was old age disease and
death and was so surprised that he left
back to his wife and newborn son
born his kingdom and all his goods
mundane to go in search of a way
to put an end to this suffering after
of years of searching finally discovered
the path to the end of suffering
nor go to a path not only to achieve
freedom from suffering but
also had immediate effects is
say it didn't take long to have
these benefits and practiced
correctly then passed the following
45 years teaching this path to
the rest
during that time many people
woke up
the mab ax drops utah number 73 in the
magnet sea and shut up mn confirms and gives us
more details about how many thousands of
people woke up in the subway when
one asks if there was any being
that he had succeeded
clearly described the number and
achievements of whom he had instructed that
is suffering the buddha declared his
cause through his four nobles
truths there is suffering and
dissatisfaction in the world and in our
lives the cause and origin of that
Suffering is the longing the cessation of
longing is the cessation of suffering the
noble eightfold path leads to the end
of that suffering defined in a way
succinct this buddhism suffering
the cause of suffering the end of
suffering and the path that leads to the end
of suffering this is the heart of
Buddhism is not about rites and rituals
prayers and incense is not a religion
but a scientific investigation for
overcome pain at all levels of
the mind and the body in the times
modern for
I know that few people really achieve
the awakening some teachers explain
that people in the time of the buddha
they were more developed
spiritually and some say it was
by the same wood to others attribute the
lack of success to the so-called times
darker in which we now live
but the buddha made it clear that if you follow
the instructions the awakening can be
achieve in a single life even in so
only a few days this is so true
today as it was in the time of the buddha
this book could be the proof
people come from different
cultures but our minds and bodies
they work the same way
means that if we follow the true
way of the buddha we can too
experience awakening in a short
period of time the experiences of
our students who have followed the
instructions of the first routes with
precision without adding or removing anything are
proof of this have experienced the
states i will talk about and you too
can a super mundane science be
attributes doctor albert einstein to say
that if you were ever interested
in getting involved in the
and Buddhism would become Buddhist
said it is the closest religion to the
science spoke about a cosmic religion
from which he felt Buddhism was
closer certainly most of the
people think that Buddhism is a
religion but what is a religion
religion is defined in the dictionary
merriam-webster as follows
belief in a god or group of gods
an organized belief system
ceremonies and rules used to
worship a god or group of gods
then buddhism is a religion
many sects of Buddhism seem
treat it as such and certainly the
Most people consider it a
religion but the obvious buddha
completely the concept of god and
that the buddha taught is beyond
any belief system
religious
so buddhism is science maybe
but it may even be beyond
science at least for the level
existing scientific knowledge
current because the concern of the
buddha was the cause and the csd
much of what I teach focused on
the development of the mind through
deep meditative practices
there is currently a trend
growing in the scientific community
explain everything related to the mind in
neuroscience terms and studying
the brain in fact much of the
Neuroscience views the mind as a
product of brain function
but this is a limited understanding of
the mind then on the one hand you have
meditation practitioners who want
find happiness with
teachings and meditation of the
religious leaders and on the other you have
Western scientists who want
find happiness through
study of the physical brain seems to be
that your goal maybe hope is
a word that defines it better is that
when we understand the brain we can
somehow develop a therapy
or pill to achieve happiness
studying the neural system will give us
an idea of how neurons work
and how they can be seen in an MRI
magnetic and other measuring equipment
doctor can also show us what
parts of the brain are used during
certain mental functions but never
will explain the understandings that
experience the mind for our
purposes this study does not provide
understandings about the true
nature of suffering and how
realize these understandings
we can achieve the cni vain there is no way
at least from what we know so far
today to replicate the process of the
wake up through a methodology
purely physical be drugs machines
etc. to achieve awakening
we must understand at a very deep level
as the joint work of the body and the
Mind is an impersonal process without self or
soul the brain is not the mind and the
mind is not the brain the brain is
just a part of the body like an arm
or a finger the mind is something that depends
of the physical body however the mind
It's something we can't measure
directly and that we can only understand
indirectly because because we depend
from the experience reported by a
individual in order to obtain this
information when we study another
person to discover their knowledge
real of something we can only have it
formation that she tells us we cannot
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the
science as systematized knowledge
derived from the observation the study and
experimentation carried out for
determine the nature or
principles of what is being studied
say that Buddhism leans more
towards science than towards beliefs
it's close but not quite yet
right the buddha left us a set
clear of methods and instructions that
they have arrived from the routes that we
allow us to penetrate our mind and
look at things directly
every time the buddha taught the way
towards the cessation of suffering always
told his followers that they had no
to believe what he said but that they should
come and see for yourselves as suggested
in the kala more utah don't take their
teachings on faith alone try it first
and then discard it if it doesn't have a
measurable benefit
the buddha did not claim any belief or
faith these instructions still follow
in force try to practice as
taught the buddha decide for yourself
so the results you are getting
are the same as described and if
are beneficial to you when you see that
work and produce results
reproducible this will give you confidence and
will encourage you to continue on the path if
we only study the brain we can't
pretend to be studying the mind already
that the mind can only be
truly known to the individual
which is being studied
investigator should ask the subject
what happened can't know how the
understanding and wisdom have
internally affected the mind of the
subject this is something that goes beyond
simple science when we say that the
Buddha's teachings go beyond
science is to say that they are supramundane
we are talking about both the methods
real that the buddha taught as of the
results comprehensions achieved with the
practice although both the methods and
results are repeatable and measurable
It is also true that they are experiences
subjective are transformative and
deep but not easily
measurable by external researchers
the buddha was not only trying to
understand the nature and principles
of what is being studied but rather
I was looking for a way to kill him.
personal suffering not only
come to understand it intellectually
Buddhism is beyond any
scientific study because only
observing the mind directly with the
own consciousness we can understand the
mind once the
understanding that mind that is being
observed transforms into indian
call it subjective science I call it
super mundane science that is why
we needed a buddha to show us the
way the answer was not a simple
this or that was a subtle recipe a
complex training to which he gave the
name of the middle path the path
middle between extremes awakening mind
and body traditionally the masters
of India believed that enlightenment
could achieve by controlling desire since
it was believed that desire was the cause of
all kinds of suffering practicing
initially within this tradition
the buddha mastered yogic practices
mind based
absorption concentration at a point
after that he spent long years
mastering austere practices and makes
ethics of logical sadhus based on
the body both efforts had the
intention to control desire and thereby
mode promote awakening on the one hand
meditation masters braman and coss
They believed they could control desire
controlling the mind by forcing the
attention to stay on an object
for longer periods of time
long it was thought that longing or desire
could be controlled but it did not happen that
the longing was overcome but arose
that almighty controller of that
I hope that as you improve your
self discipline and self control
could exercise dominance over desire
keeping it suppressed by preventing it from
protects by repressing it instead of
eliminating the but then we would have
to ask the question who is ours
real me here the one who controls the
mind that wants to control desire or desire
who has the desire or neither
even for there to be an I' there must be
something that is considered not to be the self or
at least not our real selves
in the drama pull his is number one of
say and shut up the buddha describes that there is
62 views of the self there is the self that
he observes himself he not me that
observe the self the self that observes the not self
today successively there is only one you but
which of these is it if an alcoholic says
to stop drinking by exerting his strength
of will who is the real me that
wish is the real you seems like a
fight for control will break out soon
on the other hand if controlling desires
with mental self-control and discipline
worked the ascetics thought that
they could control the desire by controlling the
body the yogis stood on a
leg for prolonged periods or
they ate a very restricted diet
believing that by controlling the body of
this way they would reach enlightenment
the mind would experience a breakthrough
when will master body control
once again self-discipline would allow
someone to take charge and control the
I wish this someone was conceived as the
higher self or the self that ultimately
I would have full control in such a way
that one would no longer be subject to desire
this was the perception about the
goal of meditation practice
it was about eliminating desire but about
control it after practicing both
extensively approaches the future buddha or
body satan or had achieved awakening
when he entered deep states of
absorption concentration found that
these states suppressed their bases
sensory so that I no longer felt
heard or experienced anything that
the mental states came from the body
that he achieved were wonderful and sublime
however he soon realized that
that strictly dominant mind yeah
I could suppress the desire but only
while practicing this was temporary no
eradicated the yearning mind completely
as soon as he stopped practicing the
desire returned with full force from the
same way after six years of
ascetic practices when he was
point of starvation near bodh
Gaya understood that excessive control
of the body through privations only
would lead to death by starvation
to the elimination of desire the cessation of
suffering would never be achieved with these
When did you stop practicing meditation?
concentration and ace techniques
tics to its absolute limit was given
realized that control was not the
answer that it was a useless practice
that did not drive when waking up use the
yearning to control the yearning in that
moment sat under the boudy tree
and determined that he would sit there until
to find the answer in one day
full moon in may became the
tata gata the buddha the awakened in the
third watch of the night between
three and seven in the morning found
the middle path came to understand the
need to use a method of
meditation that used an approach
totally different method than
included both mind and body
eliminating the controller the buddha had
previously developed vision and
understanding how his mind worked
through careful observation
began to see that mental processes
are a dependent chain of events
that arise and disappear now
we know as the links of the origin
dependent the budah used the term for
you married
that expression for reads for origin
dependent on the morning of his awakening
realized that seeing clearly the
deeper phenomena of the mind is
without a doubt the Hannibal path when seeing how
his own mind worked and observe
close mental processes came to
understand that we all cause our
own suffering saw how the
desire as it leads to suffering and how
cessation of suffering can be achieved
the buddha realized that wishes
they arise because we feed them and
we continually chase we see them as
ours and we identify
personally with them in other
words if you are sitting quietly and
your mind thinks about how nice it is
it would be somewhere else you can stop
that thought you can say is ok
mind this afternoon I would like to sit in
silence and enjoy some peace
desires do not come for this and that
unannounced unsolicited at that
sense are not our desires due to
that we personally identify with
these desires that we experience when
think of them as mine and then to
hitting
they these desires inevitably
lead to suffering we do not have
control over how when they arise or how
when desire and desire disappear
suffering occur because we
we identify and personalize these
desires and then we cling to them the
dependent origination is the understanding of
that all things both in the body
as in the mind they are conditioned
are conditioned or caused by
that came before and inevitably
lead to what happens next when seeing
clearly this chain of events we see
that everything is impersonal then where
we are in this process where
I am an important part of the
understanding of dependent origination is
that this thing that we call ego in reality
is not an ego self at all but a
impersonal process that occurs
completely beyond our
control in fact there is no possibility of
control because there is no continuous self
permanent able to be the controller
the buddha saw that there are only processes that
arise and disappear without a self
permanent involved who controls
something
make the decisions including the decision
itself is another mental process
conditioned that arises based on
prior actions decisions are not
taken by a permanent self that has
control of what is happening are your
I impersonal at that moment the only thing
What we can add is to recognize the
reality of this situation and not take it
as something personal do not get attached to the
result of a given situation this is
the practice of right effort
We call the six R's and we'll discuss
this later this was a truth
unique and profound that the Buddha discovered and
introduced the thinkers of his time
once the buddha was fully conscious
and deeply of what was
discovered he realized that the
desire and suffering ceased and today the
researchers have discovered that
fact there are measurable changes in both
the mind as in the bodies of the
meditators as they are practiced
various types of meditation techniques
there are measurable positive results
the buddha realized that he could not
move towards awakening controlling
separately mind or body
you cannot disconnect the stimuli from the
body suppressing sensory bases
with some kind of deep concentration
on the other hand you can't torture the
body and hope that this leads to
some kind of mind control trying to
control pain the buddha understood that
mind and body work together
but first he tried to control each one
separately to the extent that he could
muster their energy and determination
worked the result was that it stopped
trying to control the mind and body
and went looking for another way to solve
this dilemma hundreds of years later
comments and opinions about
the teachings of the buddha as elvis udi
magician who began to divide the practices
fundamentally dividing practice
comprehension and concentration
vipassana and samata in different
techniques while routes
originals indicated that they were
united
elvis udi maga was written in 430
the Christian era more than 900 years later
that the buddha lived is a great
volume written by bulldog osa que
tries to present mainly the
main practices
and you go that the Buddha taught is considered
especially a very
important for buddhist school
Theravada as they are not the words of the
buddha is considered a commentary on
their practices in the bis udi maga there
many methods linked to the development of
concentration
some use caxinas or colored discs
Many use the breath to create a
mimics or sign to focus more on
Later we will describe the origins of the
book and how it fits with the practice of
meditation then came the practice of
arid understanding dri insight that avoided
deep concentration completely
these teachers even told their
practitioners to stay away
of absorption practices
concentrated because they might become attached to
they
this method of arid comprehension
developed only the concentration
enough to start researching the
mental process without the benefit of a
strongest type of concentration
teachers of such an approach said that it was
quicker and more direct the question
here is the buddha taught this
is the crucial understanding of what the
buddha taught in the utah it is said that the
samata concentration is linked to
direct knowledge comprehension
vipassana samata and vipassana for the
both should be practiced together this is
what is really taught in dating
and this is what banteur and mal will do if
rediscovered hidden in plain sight and that
he has given the name of meditation
comprehension of calm wisdom or
Conscious Hannah Practice Before
start practicing
meditation
let's see how the mind works
examine what the Buddha considered the
most important concept to be
learn origin dependent leaving
back control after years of
practice in the Brahmanical tradition in
the night of his awakening the buddha gave himself
realized why I had not found
relieved the fundamental premise of his
practices was wrong
that idea assumed that one could control
the desire and therefore control the
suffering on the night of his awakening
the buddha directly realized what
that he had already deduced on his own
mental processes
understood that everything contains desire and that
it arises from the actions of the past
because those actions have already
happened no one has control over what
that will arise or how you will react to it
observe the impersonal emergence of
same as the dependent origin and
how it works when you sit down and
calm the mind everything stays
stand still what could happen next
is that a sound arises like the chirping of
a bird the shape of the sound
squeak hits the base of the ear
organ the physical ear and the
awareness of the ear these three things the
sound the basis of hearing and consciousness
of the ear are the link of contact in
the twelve links of dependent origination
contact passes are the three elements
who come together to make the audition happen
in the same way when lighting a match
you have the head of the match
flammable chemicals and
matchbox flint when
you strike the match on the flint this is
call contact
in heat and light resulting in a
Call if any of these three are missing
things audition doesn't happen once you
you hear the sound a feeling arises in me
dan has associated with that sound then
the perception arises that it is pleasant
unpleasant or good neither pleasant nor
unpleasant neutral feeling and
perception are followed by longing
tana that comes up with the formula I like it or
I don't like it or I don't care here it is
where you begin to identify with what
what is happening and to take it as
head this tension or contraction is
how do you recognize desire
You must see and let go of this longing in the
head this desire is what will take you
right away to think clinging and then
will lead to the birth of action and
will result in sorrow lamentation
pain and despair after longing
clinging or padana or thought arises
the story of why you like it or not
like this is based on your experience
passed on what happened when that
sound
at some point in the past the memory
comes from a time when you were
watching the birds if you heard a
unique type of bird pansies
emerge and begins a story about the
sound then arises an impulse or a
need to act associated with what
you could do when you hear that sound
this is the usual emotional trend
or the behavior drool for example if
you are a bird watcher when
you listen to a bird your tendency
usual is to look for your camera or your
binoculars an emotional trend
habitual is something you always tend to
do in a given situation
habitual reaction may be in response
to a feeling that you have someone
walks into the room and complains about
something you always react the same
way not liking you and reacting
emotionally towards the person
your husband or wife complains call to
tell you that he will be home late after
from work you may get this kind
of frequent calls and reactions
the same way every time
a negative reaction can be a
trial such as
can you be trusted or could be a
attack reaction because you think not
is telling you the truth is a
habitual emotional tendency tends to
appear when this situation occurs
when this habitual reaction arises there
is where the strong tendency to
try to control your feelings with
your thoughts notice that the mind is
disturbed and react with frustration
trying to control thoughts
altered this is when you start to
take something personally you become
emotional the mind contains many
factors or states of consciousness there is a
greedy mind and there is a joyful mind
in the animated utah the buddha says that
even the mental factor of the decision
is conditioned by previous actions
of the past this decision process is
something we could name
will or intention but we have to
be careful to use those words already
which could be misunderstood
that there is a me making a decision
decision process is only a small
factor however is the most
important when arriving to take a
decision
as indicated above the
phenomena arise and pass like singing
of a bird and depend on that sound
for its existence when your mind is
very quiet you can see the rise
decision factor as well as push
that accompanies you to make the decision
it is very interesting when you can
observe your mind operating at this level
and see how really you mean I don't
I am in charge of the decision for example
a desire arises for a cup of tea
then you continue thinking about what you
you could know well if you are very attentive
you can see the exact moment when
you decide what to take there is a moment in
the one that arises your decision
if you back carefully just
allowing everything to arise observing it
very carefully this is your factor
mental investigation you will see that the factor
mental decision arises by itself
and then this also happens
call to action that arises through
of the longing associated with it this longing is
the urge you feel to enter
action there really is free will
there are
a soul or entity deep within
making decisions more or less without
however at the deepest level only
there is the mind that decides what arises and
disappears then you have the decision
but it is a conditioned decision
phrase volitional formations used in
the texts of the sutras is inadequate
abolition is not exactly correct
indicates that someone is deciding but
there is no one to decide there are only causes
and conditions there is no you to take the
decision only the moment of decision making
decision the only real power we have
is to allow and observe
freeing ourselves and relaxing us in that
decision watching her disappear
continuing after the link
usual trend at origin
dependent comes the link from
true birth of action and to you
when you get up to go look for your
camera the impulse to action translates
in carrying out the action this can
be in the form of a bodily action
movement a verbal action speak
or a mental action thought
unfortunately when you come back
with your camera the bird is gone
due to the result of your action to
get the camera can arise
dissatisfaction because now the bird is
gone do you think your actions always
they will take you to what you want but never
you can be really sure of the
results of an action the best
plans of mice and men then
that follows the link of the birth of the
action is the last link sadness
lamentation sorrow and despair if there is
some happy moments here and there
but they are fleeting even if you reached
take the picture of the bird you wish that
he would have stayed longer or what
you would have recorded his singing etc.
the twelve links of dependent origination
We have just covered the last part of the
process the most verifiable part and
observable these are the last seven
links contact feeling longing
clinging habitual tendency
birth of action and sadness
lamentation sorrow and despair
are the ones you can see without having to
going too deep into meditation
touch feel longing grasping
habitual tendency birth of the
action sadness lamentation sorrow and
despair the first five
links of the full twelve links
of the dependent origin appear before
those mentioned above and can
be understood as potentials can only
be observed as subtle movements in
the mind with the exception of the
ignorance that is your understanding more
Go ahead when your meditation is more
deep you will see the emergence of the
first five ignorance formations
consciousness mentality materiality and the
base of the six senses
the buddha said that everything begins with
ignorance of how things work
noble truths which makes clear
that the allele directs the entire development process
suffering is this to ignore the four
noble truths which leads us to
act in a harmful way creating a
endless suffering on the page
Below is a graph showing the
circle of dependent origin
in the eec it depends on the previous link
as nutrient as food in each
link there is also a small amount
extra anne what makes it all
the process continues to progress in a
endless chain of events the sun
yuta nica already has a lot of
information about what is the origin of
pending here are the concepts
basic sn 12.1 monks I will teach you the
slope origin listen I'm here
pay close attention I'm going to talk yes
venerable sir answered these
monks the blessed said this and what monks
is the dependent origin with the
ignorance as a condition originate
formations with formations like
condition consciousness with consciousness
as condition name and named form
and forms as a condition the six bases of
the senses with the six bases
sensory as a condition contact with
contact as a condition of feeling with the
feel like condition longing with longing
as a clinging condition with
clinging as a condition exists
with existence as a condition
birth with birth as
condition aging and death
the sadness the regret the pain the
disgust and despair become
Such reality is the origin of all this
mass of suffering this monks is called
the dependent origin but with the
Endless fading and cessation of
ignorance comes the cessation of
formations with the cessation of
formations the cessation of consciousness with
the cessation of consciousness the cessation of
name and form with the cessation of the name
and the form the cessation of the six bases
sensory with the sensation of six
sensory bases the sensation of
contact with the sensation of contact
the sensation of feeling with the cessation of
feel the cessation of longing with the cessation
of longing the cessation of clinging with
the cessation of clinging the cessation of
existence with the cessation of existence
the cessation of birth with the cessation of
birth aging and death
the sadness the regret the pain the
disgust and despair cease such
the cessation of all this mass
and suffering the highest goal of
tui mes see how each link depends o
it is conditioned by the above link
when one understands this process from a
deep way the unconditioned state
nirvana arises for the first time this
first moment is the knowledge of the
way one realizes that there is no
I personal ego just a process
impersonal that depends on the
conditions of this understanding comes a
great relief because as the famous
zen saying
if there is no ego there is no problem
no one there so no one to whom
control is as if we see a figure
dark walking towards us fear
can arise because our mind throws
this concept of a villain of our
past but when we get closer we see
who is our friend and that image
fearful is replaced by another image
happy
in the same way we thought there was a
me there and now we see that it was a
illusion we can follow the links of the
dependent origin on our own
behavior in the same way
we see a city
created in its last 100 years the
first buildings gave way to others
buildings
then they deteriorated and were
replaced by different buildings and
so on this emergence and
disappearance of conditions is like
the rise and fall of a
big booming city in decay and
constantly changing finally
disappears due to innumerable causes
that depend on each other there is no
controller who makes decisions and makes
measures there in that city only
produce conditioned changes
that happened in the past in the same way
you do not possess a personal being or a soul that
monitor your progress in life there is only
changes that occur due to causes and
conditions that arise and disappear
this is what we mistakenly call
our I nor my my myself my I is a
impersonal process a chain
endless list of causes and conditions
flow like a river a river that
we mistakenly identify it with
ourselves the dependent origin is
in fact the most important principle of
Buddhism together with the four noble
truth is to understand that the source of
Suffering is the longing as well as the
same operation of the origin
dependent leads to the elimination of
that longing to understand that the noble
eightfold path is the way to this
goal is the heart of meditation
buddhist eightfold path perspective
harmonious vision right understanding
harmonious thoughts thought
correct communication harmonious speech
correct harmonious movement action
correct harmonious lifestyle mode
subsistence correct practice
harmonious effort right observation
harmonious correct mindfulness
harmonious recollection concentration
correct
chapter 2 mindfulness redefined what it is
mindfulness just that
means mindfulness there was a
article in a Buddhist magazine where
posed this question to four teachers
meditation at the end of the discussion
no response yet
mindfulness seems to be in vogue
in these days and has gone from his
strict Buddhist origins to a
more general acceptance used in
many areas used since the
psychologists even in the education of
children and even has uses
military even has its own
mind full magazine mindfulness se
used to be aware of our
thoughts and the general state of
our being and is used to calm down and
relax all these are good uses
but it is what the Buddha taught is the
current mindfulness protocol
process that he intended I have a
theory and you will not find it anywhere
other side so please have
patience with me the word to read
for mindfulness it is you when
translated the Pali texts
translators came across this
word zatti and they had to choose one
appropriate English word for
translate it the problem is that some of
the things that buddha taught were ideas
completely new and never had
been exposed to European culture
there were never words in english that
will represent these oriental concepts
Buddhism had never reached
the West therefore had not been
developed a vocabulary
corresponding in English then what
could be done
choose the word closest to you had
to do with observation and knowing what
what was happening for what i know
selected the expression be aware
or pay attention mind full had
sense but he really had it
problem is that mindfulness was already
a solid concept in the English language
pay attention when you open and don't
head bang that kind of definition
asad was applied and therefore be
aware or being attentive meant
remember to look where you are
directed and carefully observe the
process to get there what happened
here is the English word exercised
a powerful undue influence on
the term for lee now was almost like
if the term for read had been
created to represent the word in
English and not the reverse term for lee
they were meditators they could only guess
really means bassat and that would be
well if that was how it is defined and
used the term sad and in the shoots
ace but it may not be so now
you will get a new definition of the
word mindfulness mindfulness that
is quite different in your application
when tested with the texts
of the shoot as you will see that it works better
the definition of mindfulness is remembering
observe how the attention of the mind is
moves from one thing to another looking more than
near this definition the first part
It's just remembering what sounds easy but
it is not
once you pay attention you will find
that your mind is constantly wandering
of self-observation because of
thoughts you don't have
control you are aware of the mind
a thought arises and you are drawn
towards that thought until
remember you're supposed to
pay attention to movement
attention of the mind you carry your
observation back to mind and such
time a few seconds or minutes later
another thought diverts your attention
it is important to remember what is supposed
what should you be doing observe
the attention process of the mind and its
movements as part of a process
impersonal which brings us to the second
part during the retreat you will meditate
walking when you start your practice and
you walk slowly along the path your mind
lazy the first thing you should do is
remember to be fully attentive and
then do it then the second
part of mindfulness means
become aware of how the care of
the mind moves from one thing to another
budah intended the meditator to be
aware of what arises in the
present whatever it was and that he saw
specifically how it arises not
It didn't matter what the feelings were or
the sensations or if we were
looking closely or not just to know
that had arisen was not intended
that the meditator chose parts
specific to the four fundamentals of
mindfulness or the five aggregates
of mind and body to simply
watching them that would have been a practice
of concentration to focus on those
individual parts rather wanted than
you look is the activity of the attention of
the mind and you will observe
as it arises and disappears without any
control on your part and 2 how do you take this
mental movement personally as
yours the mind sticks to a way of
feel and then identifies it as my
feel even though you didn't request that
arose or disappeared you never had
no control over it
it just arose when the
conditions were propitious
identification with feeling gives rise to
a false belief in a personal self
concept of I' when you see how the
concept of I' you can release it no
holding attention on relaxing
tension or oppression caused by that
disturbance smile and return to
object of meditation it is clear that
there was never a me at all there is only a
endless stream of activity like no
you have control over what comes up
you begin to see how this process of
identification longing is the root of
suffering longing manifests as
that desire to control what happens and
when even that can't be achieved
suffering arises and we don't like it
leads to frustration and a desire still
greater than control then again
what is the definition of mindfulness
mindfulness is remembering to observe
as the attention of the mind moves from
one thing to another as things
they arise without asking without being requested
and then disappear completely when
have run their course mindfulness
It is not concentrating excessively on a
object a way of feeling or the
breathing or anything else just
knows or knows what is happening in
this process of observing movement
of the attention of the mind is where you see
obstacles arise and how they
drag your attention there are 5 obstacles
one greed or sensual desires 2
hate or dislike 3 so for laziness bar
sleepiness and apathy boredom 4 restlessness
worry or anxiety
of yourself from the master of the practice or
of the buddha is when you remain with your
object of meditation that you will find at
allele raising his head faith to your
goal is to fully understand
how desire arises and by understanding the
process you let go of this desire and
you remain with the object of
meditation and you don't do it by squeezing the
teeth and rejecting what you want
is to make the obstacles your
friends
they are your teachers show you where
you are attached when you understand them
completely you will not need more
instructions to graduate as in the
wake up you will see the four fundamentals
of mindfulness with a power of
pure and clear observation you will see them
free of longing and free of yourself
assuming them personally it will be a
relief to relinquish control of those
things that are uncontrollable all four
fundamentals of mindfulness
As we further investigate the
twin meditation is important to understand
the four foundations of mindfulness
fully and how they are correctly applied in
the practice of meditation
10 the sat and patanas utah tells us that
Let's look at the 4 fundamentals of
mindfulness his is says observe
the four fundamentals and stop
longing and clinging stop assuming the
fundamentals personally all four
fundamentals are body feel mind and
mental objects are also known
as the five aggregates body feel
perception formations and consciousness
when the four fundamentals are used in
place of the five aggregates perception
and feel the four fundamentals unite
and the five aggregates are different
ways to say the same but it depends
whether you are talking about meditation or the
impersonal process of existence
the mind and the body want to see that
there is before creating confusion to the
identify with what we are
observing and taking it as our self
we want to see the body only as a
body noticing feeling just like feeling
consciousness only as consciousness and
so on we need to observe
oana impersonality is for us
themselves
elvis udi maga explains that the
sat methodology and patanas utah is
split
4 fundamentals and practice them for
separated if you want to observe the body
just watch the breath for a part
of the body if you want to observe the feeling
then just observe the feeling and so
successively the vipassana practice of
insight meditation divides the
four fundamentals as
described above see if you
you focus on just one of them for
separated for the most part you observe how
the breath goes in and out but some
teachers will try to explain to you that
you must observe the ways of feeling or
mental objects separately and
repeatedly during practice
As you focus on the feel for
example only sometimes feel and not the rest
of the aggregates that accompany it
you're really fully aware already
What this really means is
see how your attention moves from one
thing to another is not just looking at objects
in themselves in a concentrated way but
the relationship between the object of
meditation and the other objects that are
move around that explanation not
fundamentals you cannot observe all the
fundamentals because they all occur together
all the foundations exist in each
moment
otherwise you yourself would not exist if
your body cannot arise without you
mental body or feel fundamentals
arise and are observed linked to each other
with others are not separate things
we have a mind and a body
dependent on each other
clearly observable even in the
early stages of meditation
you can observe the body without the
consciousness or perception know what
what is there or without the presence of the
feel that allows you to recognize what kind of
feeling is present in the body
nice unpleasant or neutral is how
disassemble a car to its parts
and Alaves observe it working I don't know
can observe in operation without
all its assembled parts and
working together the feeling is not what
same as feelings let's stop
here for a minute and let's talk about the
foundation of feeling to be clear
this
speaking of feeling not of
feelings in the shoots as the aggregate
from feeling they give me a does not have the s is
just a feeling with a feel tone
associated just pure sensation that's all
the most important part of this feeling
is that it is either pleasant or painful or neither
pleasant nor painful feelings
on the other hand are generally understood
as emotional states what
it means that there are mixed desires if
you look at someone you meet
attractive and a way of feeling arises
that is nice is likely to arise
lust a nice feeling with
lust like is what we call
emotions habitual trend baba that
emotion could be classified as a
feel or pleasant desire that is taken
personally this feeling accompanied by
customization is commonly known
like feelings with an s at the end
for example love when it appears with
romantic connotations is not kindness
loving this kind of love of a
couple relationship is much more
related to a state of affection or
infatuation
to longing loving kindness is a state
pure non-personal an authentic desire to
someone be happy
loving kindness can become
compassion when directed towards someone
that suffers does not become hate or
sadness is never taken personally
these are not feelings they are just
feeling the buddha considered feeling
was whatever it felt like
other words considered to feel
was any mental experience or
physical that he felt he classified the
feel like pleasant unpleasant or neither
neither pleasant nor unpleasant neutral did not use
the word sensation here does not
It didn't matter if it was a feeling of warmth
or a feeling of hardness or the taste of
a mango or a banana flavor only
I wanted you to consider if it was nice
unpleasant or neutral is not necessary
dive deeper because it's
This distinction is important because the
feeling leads to desire the states of
I wish I like it or I don't like it depends
of feeling and will arise in the mind
enter nothing if it is not released
quickly mind I like can
wear
think about why you like something when
you last had it and when
you will have it again with this process
your mind begins to drift away from your
meditation object
This is the harmful mind in which
you are seeing the five aggregates arise
turns cloudy with the longing that
leads to thought and stories
How do we set aside this process of
longing and that is a clear mind free from
longing in the next chapter we will see
what is this liberated state and how does it arise
we will consider the stages of progress in
the meditation that the buddha and the mojana
we will examine what they are using
exclusively what appears the routes
and how with the passage of time the
original meaning of this word
turned confusing chapter 3 which is a
hannah more of a hannah type yeah
have you ever met the
word hannah then chances are
be a state you want to experience
desires are described as levels of
concentration can contain happiness
and deep satisfaction something that
and of course everyone wants is
important to understand because the utah
they explain that you go through them in your
road to nirvana are the road an ivana
there are actually two types of hannah today
Nowadays there are many methods that are
teach in the practice of meditation
which one is correct how can we
discover what the buddha really
I teach in the say and shut up this same
dilemma was addressed by the buddha say
nica jazz utah 21 takes out i ask the
sir sir all the teachers and
Brahmins teach the same lady
practice the same discipline they want the same
same and pursue the same objective
ruler of the gods they do not and for
why isn't this world made up of
many and diverse elements and the
people adhere to one or the other of
these elements and stick tenaciously to
them saying this is only true everything
the rest is false therefore all
teachers and brahmins do not teach the same
lady do not practice the same discipline no
want the same or pursue the same
objective
in this book we will try to remain
faithful to the material of the sultan while
We explain the differences in the
wide variety of techniques available in
the Buddhist universe if there are two types of
desire and two main types of
meditation practice to achieve
those two types of hannah exist the
concentration absorption practice
at one point and the practice of meditation
of comprehension of calm wisdom
wim later the first guy practice
of concentration at one point will be divided
in a direct practice of concentration
absorption 2 comprehension practice with
concentration absorption and 3 practice of
arid comprehension the word for distant
not used in reference to meditation
before the buddha the buddha used it to
describe your own experiences
during meditation practice
although the word for distant often
translates as a state of
concentration this is not correct since
the point of view of twin the experts
of pali as the very venerable score of
malaysia they say hannah just means
level if you check a dictionary to read
you will also see that it is defined as
I have not been meditative the very
venerable puna he also offers a
alternate definition of the word
samadhi related to the previous one
is often considered and used to
define a state of concentration
absorption the word for lizama
means equal or calm stable and
means status in this usage
then the most venerable wrestles and
translates samadhi as a state of
stable calm balance the word
samadhi implies a reunited state and
unified but not deep absorption
that removes obstacles is a state
more open and conscious the venerable
banteur and malar am if you define the word
hannah as a level of understanding each
Rolling Hannah is one level up
deep understanding of
dependent origin operation and
of mental processes
dante vinalar am if you use recollection or
collection to translate the word
concentration with greater precision in addition
van has discovered that in pali the
word dy can also be translated as
wisdom in terms of levels of
understanding therefore we gather
haydee resulting in wisdom
calm in the description of the buddha of
heal them as you go deeper into the
practice each hannah's achievement reflects
a deeper level of understanding
what it means to stop craving raisins
through the healthy ones as you
progresses from gross longing to a
finer mental balance
until finally after the state
of my perception nor non-perception the
highest jana you attain the cessation of
longing this is the gateway to the
attainment of nirvana at that time occurs
the cessation of desire I look at you love for you
this is the state in which it does not arise in
absolutely no feeling perception or
consciousness the mind simply
stops and arise and go to again the
meaning of hanna never supposed
absorption hannah means a state of
recollection or a level of understanding
in mental development however to
As the emphasis shifted away from the
actual teachings of the buddha as
described in the shoot as and focused on
comments like the be sub ddi maga la
word hannah was more commonly used
to describe the state of
concentration
in the and good will make and silence the book of
the five number 27 have this quote
have 5 27 a knowledge arises that is
personally yours this concentration is
peaceful and sublime obtained by the
complete calming down and coming to
achieve unification is not withheld and
controlled by forcefully suppressing the
Clearly obscures this quote
indicates an open and conscious state and
not a state of absorption that suppresses
so there are two types of hannah or two
different ways of understanding the term
a style is made up of the desire to
single point absorption that can be
achieved through various methods of
concentration that include observing the
breathing focus on a disk of
casin color or absorbed in the flame of
a candle these desires are the states
achieved by teachers and logicians and
They were learned by whoever later
would become the Buddha when he began to
walk the path the desire to
absorption concentration have been
taken by many of the monks
Buddhists today and are supported
of comments like elvis udi maga
ben van i saw you badly aram if you explain the encore
udi maga was written by the venerable
wood i do zakariya in the 5th century
years after the death of the buddha his
teacher asked him abounds enjoy that it was
to the king lanka and translate the comments
written in no welsh to language for read
To obtain a readable translation the
venerable buddha enjoys also had the
task of bringing together four schools
different from Buddhism so that all
schools to stop arguing was a
very good student of the language to read
a true scholar but did not study the
routes he himself did not practice meditation
before becoming a Buddhist monk
was a Sanskrit scholar who had
memorized all the ancient vedas
Brahmin texts unfortunately
because the author was not a
meditation practitioner relied on
largely on what was in other
comments for information
on how to do meditation divided
erroneously and separated the teaching from the
buddha in two separate types of practice
Osama concentration is and comprehension or
vipassana your are for another
they always say that vipassana kills
they are united however today the be sub
ddi maga more than shoot ace is
considered as the encyclopedia of
meditation for Buddhism and has been
turned into basic instructions
for the whole system of Buddhism
theravada is the bible and the book of
text on how to practice one of the
masters of the venerable banteur and malar
am if he told you to be a monk
Theravada must be accepted all that
appears in the bis udi maga banteur
He reflected for a moment and said I think
that I am not a Theravada monk I am a
buddhist monk even though i use
some of the advice of the beat sud and
magician couldn't accept it due to the
many contradictions and discrepancies
with the su you are in mn 36 more to kaka su
is the buddha says he tried the
practice of concentration and absorption and
rejected it for not being the way to
wake up that's why we that
we are following the routes we cannot
say we are truly Theravada
we call ourselves his cover
we only follow the texts of his is or
simply buddhists
the second type of hannah is the jana
aware that it is the jana described in
the shoot as banteur and malar and see la
rediscovered when studying the texts
written by practicing from the
texts of the shoot as dante found
a gradual decrease in desire
while progressing through the
calm conscious desire as
describes in the sute mn 111 the annotated
utah it is helpful to understand that the factors
hannah ie healthy states
that arise when one is in hannah in
a calm and conscious healthy or in a
absorption concentration gains are
very similar in nature the difference
is that in a healthy calm and
aware the obstacles are released
smoothly and in the state of
concentration obstacles are removed
and the states move aside
resultants that arise are similar
but of course they are not the same
main feature of the first
wins is joy the second wins
deeper joy and confidence
the third wins happiness and satisfaction
and the fourth hannah balance very
deep and equanimity
what is confusing is that both the desire
absorption concentration such as
calm conscious desire they have
these same qualities however
manifest differently in each
one of the two types of hannah in the
type of absorption are more pronounced and
very intense in the conscious hana are
more balanced with more equanimity and
they are not so extreme the fourth hannah se
Divide the base of the base into four bases
infinite space that entails the
sensation of expansion the base of the
infinite consciousness in which the
consciousness is seen in its arising and
infinite dissolution the base of nothing
in which there is a feeling that there is no
there is nothing and the basis of my perception nor
non-perception in which the mind barely
It shows later we will investigate everything
this more thoroughly the fact that they arise
similar but different states
in the absorption as in the desire
conscious talks about the confusion about
of the two types of desire how can
there be two different types of hannah that
have similar features but
obtained with different techniques
no wonder that after more than
2500 years of things
have become cloudy before looking at the
utah texts about frogs
Let's take a closer look at how they are taught.
usually both guys will start
wanting absorption in a healthy point
absorption concentration absorption
of hannah is achieved through the
powerful concentration of the mind in a
single object ignoring and preventing
any distraction that takes away the
mindfulness jana's
concentration at one point is called
logical state where one reaches a level
of absorption in which you lose track
of the outside world you do not hear or feel
nothing and you are only aware of the mind
the absorption states of
concentration are deep and can
take years of practice and discipline
achieve them the meditator is reminded
constantly take your mind off
return to your object of meditation if it
wanders may pull her and sometimes
end up pushing so hard that
you get to hit him a strong tug to
that return to the object there is not really
an attitude of letting go and allowing be it with
softly or forcefully it ends up forcing
the mind to stay with the object
with the desire to absorb elvis udi
maga explains that the preliminary state of
concentration is called opacará or
access concentration you are still
conscious and you are not yet fully
absorbed note that this term
or idea does not appear in your are in
this concentration of access no
obstacle will grab your mind
also if you try to bring something to the
mind as a thought of anger or
lust will not stay and your mind will be
clear your mind does not wander but
just reject any
distraction and takes her away from her object of
meditation by practicing this form of
exclusion the mind learns to return to
home automatically i.e. to your
custom main meditation object
that progresses you will enter the absorption
total or in the concentration to corduroy in the
that the consciousness of the outside world
will disappear completely
obtained the first level of
jana concentration
then you work to go through the rest of
the 8 you win using the power of the
deep concentration to suppress
any obstacles that arise
process really works you experience
of concentration they have
characteristics similar to healthy
aware twin but they are not the same and
have subtle differences
most simply dismiss as no
important but they are a kind of
concentration still leaves yearning in the
mind but the same does not happen with the
another to develop this type of practice
from hannah it can take you more than one
decade following thai tradition
the milans that are said to be better and
they can take you to the first win in
less than 10 years of practice others say
which takes much less but requires
an incredible effort they will tell you one
story about a monk who was
asked to enter a hannah's
absorption which made the monks who
were with him they took his arm and
raised above his head
it hung there hanging in the air then
they asked the monk if he knew they had
done this and he said no
the meditating monk was unaware
completely his body at that moment and
he was only conscious of his object of
meditation when one is absorbed
can hear sounds does not feel anything in
the body
and neither in the five physical senses
so that the desire on a physical level is
delete because the body is not there
also because one is very
concentrated on his object of meditation
desire is also suppressed at the level
mental in the 4th absorption hannah and
superiors
it is said that the meditator even stops
breathe through the mouth and nose and
breathe through the ears this is not the case
in the conscious calm jana in the
that one is aware of the outside world
and continue breathing normally the jana
conscious calm in mn 26 the
noble quest and mn 36 the great speech
to sacaca the buddha describes his path
towards awakening as mentioned in
the previous section
initially believed that the question of
reaching enlightenment had to do
with control control the mind with the
objective of being able to control the desire and
so end the suffering you result
continue to describe with certain
detail as buddha first attempted
time meditation as the main form
to end suffering sought and
Studied with Indian Logic Masters
more skillful
the time learning everything they had
who teach initially trained with
the desire for absorption just as he did
most yogis at that time
when gautama reached the seventh hannah
absorbing the state of nothingness its
master fuss lama honored him by saying
that he had learned everything he had
that teach invited him to stay and
teach his side Gautama declined because
beyond even this sublime level
of meditation the suffering still
there was the longing had not yet been
extinguished then he asked lara
Calama if there could be a state even more
alto lara calama told gautama that
I knew someone who taught the state
higher than it is possible to reach told him
to study with a daca rama putt a
who taught him to reach the eighth
hannah laden absorption and perception and
non-perception he mastered this state in
a short time and then the same thing happened
this teacher also invited him to
stay and teach
way and they were going to given that still
I experienced a subtle desire after
get out of these elevated states once
more left after they had
Said he had nothing more to teach
the highest state had mastered him
logical of those that were taught in that
Couldn't find anyone else
Could I teach you another technique?
superior to be able to control his mind
the venerable big cucaña nan anda declares
in his little book neither go to the mind
stiller volume 2 on the sermon 6 page
127 these more subtle layers of
mental creations thoughts
formations also have ignorance
hidden longing within them for that
even fuss lahm help ka rama [ __ ]
They thought they could get off this wheel
of existence
samsara calming activities
bodily verbal activities and
mental activities but not
understood that all these are so
faces or mental creations therefore
they faced a certain
activities continued to calm down
bodily at more and more subtle levels
calmed the inhalations and the
exhalations managed to suppress the
thought and reflection through
concentration exercises but without the
proper understanding was just a relief
temporary gautama had not yet awakened
to the true nature of mind
mental absorption and set out to perform
the austere Acetic practices of the
yogic fates by controlling pain in
the physical body through practices
tortuous that produce pain expected
gain control of your mind hopefully
this would lead us to peace and a mind
balanced after six years of
austerities doing practices
indescribably difficult and even
disgusting like drinking your own urine
and worse things see if you are mn 36 and 12
when i was on the brink of death
the bodies tie the future buddha resigned
He also came to dominate that path
control of his body and perfected
any austerity that is asked
but this does not take him to the end of the wish
after spending all this time
mastering the desire to concentrate
logic and yogic austerities the
future buddha sat on the banks of the
ganges near the current winery already
I was almost starving until
to eat only one grain of rice
For days I knew I would die if I continued
so a young woman named sujata came and
offered sweet rice pudding to eat
for the first time in a long time
allowed to consume a reasonable portion
of food immediately felt that his
energy returned vitality began to
run through your body and mind while
I was sitting on the river bank at
woody tree shadow reflected on
his past efforts realizing
that all had been in vain was not
closer to the end of suffering than
when it started i had tried and
mastered all the practices of
concentration and austerities and not
had come closer to waking up
then gautama the future buddha began
to reflect on the difficult situation
of humans
in the sun yutani the book of the
causation give me a vague origin says
vicus before my awakening when still
I was a sad body that wasn't there yet
wide awake it occurred to me
unfortunately this world has fallen into
problems since it is born gets old and dies
led by aging and
death then it occurred to me when I
that exists grows old and death arises
that conditions aging and
death point point point occurred in
me a breakthrough through wisdom
when there is birth aging
and death come true
aging and death have
birth of action as a condition
then continue explaining how the body
sata discovered each of the links
of dependent origin and giving the reason
who explains them saw how each ceased
link and as if that link ceased
then the following link too
ceased after the cessation of the last link
out of ignorance arose
unconditional nirvana then to the body
sata had a memory of when he was
a child had been left alone on a sofa
under a rose apple tree
while his father the king was in the
plowshare festival recalled that
when he got completely quiet
and relaxed
had naturally fallen into a state
very peaceful and energetic where his mind
dropped all obstacles and desires
entered a completely healthy state and
totally happy watching and
conscious a calm state arose
special had stopped trying
that moment and only observed what was
happening he just allowed
everything was as it is and relaxed still
more in that state this was the state to
which buddha would refer to later with the
word for distant when the future
buddha sat under the woody tree and
reflected on this memory of the
childhood realized that this was
a different kind of state while
contemplated this condition of mind entered
in this state again in shape
natural
completely relax the body and
mind without trying to do something or
control just by being there in the
present happy and joyful as there was
been when i was a kid i achieved the same
open and calm state of mind
light what the future buddha had
found was what they go I saw you wrong
they will do if the conscious desire calls
calm down this was different from the
states of concentration that had
practiced with their teachers
above and can be described with
greater precision as a state of
recollection collect is recollection
is defined in English as the state of
calm and composed he is the very picture
of recollection and trust
webster's dictionary then further deepened
more and in the third watch of the night
from 3 to 7 am he became the buddha buddha
is a title for someone completely
awake this is not his name but his
title after all gautama buddha no
was the first buddha nor will he be the last one
I once had the experience of entering a
gain concentration by accident
ironically I was not following the
instructions
It is something typical in a retirement to income
band the beat malara mbps and when i came out
there was a very high state of consciousness and
powerful with much happiness was
interesting because i felt this state
as very holy or sacred and distant from
everything very similar to what I imagined that
could feel a holy monk dissipated
in about an hour and
just faded to day
next was completely gone and
It seemed that nothing had been gained
having the experience I felt empty of
done for not having gotten anything out of a
such a powerful experience it was strange that
something so powerful had no effect on me
personality wanted to believe otherwise
but it hadn't really taken place
no positive change this was a
deep understanding for me come back and
check the instructions again and
I discovered that it had not been
conscious enough I had
allowed to be absorbed by the object in another
withdrawal from tui and deliberately made the
breathing meditation using
concentration to focus on
breath in the belly of the way
who had done vipassana
a very different experience when
I forced the mind to hold the
breathing the mind became very
concentrated I saw what looked like an edge
of light is like a window frame
as if looking through the
there was no porthole of a ship
absolutely nothing inside this ring
only emptiness and silence however when
I got out of that state I didn't feel the same
clearly that with the twin method the
deep concentration left a kind
of a state of torpor and it was quite
uncomfortable mind didn't feel bright
and balanced had lost its
flexibility and ability to think
clarity curiously I felt a little
like i was stressed nervous i went
to lady talk and it was a bit
hard to follow the talk gradually
however the mind returned to a state
more balanced with twins meditation
you start by establishing an easy state
open and light this is achieved
using the feeling of goal or
loving-kindness as an object of meditation
and smiling radiate goal outward
holds our attention
and open while smiling is a
healthy movement that prevents us
taking meditation too seriously
creating tension and stiffness or as
they call the routes longing longing we prefer
the object of loving-kindness as
leads to faster progress but the
breathing can also be used if
we use the relax step properly
next we will use the sat and patanas
utah to understand the process of
meditation in terms of breathing
and the relaxing step that is so necessary
the most essential step to experience
we wanted them consciously is the
right practice of right effort
in particular the quiet step how
is defined in the sutace or what
we call the step relax in
pali is pass go the step of the
relaxation is the key to eliminating
obstacles and desire through
true correct effort that allows
let this different kind of hannah emerge
a conscious healthy both in the sut asad
and patana as in its so just to you
it is said when the student inhales he knows
you inhale when you exhale
exhale don't focus only on the
breath but you just know
that you're just breathing
you understand that you are breathing the
word for read for this is to you that
is to observe and know you know it is a
long breath and you know it's a
short breath this just means
observe whatever is there in one
light way without trying to control it
don't you try to make a breath
short be long or than a breath
long be short don't breathe deeply
you don't change anyone's breath
way and you don't focus strongly on the
breathing only you understand what is
happening if someone told you you know
where are you look and have around you and
Would you say if I'm in my garden don't you
under the rocks you just know you are
in the garden the buddha makes this
process is even clearer with the
next step where it says that inhaling
and exhaling experience the whole body
he doesn't say watch your breath he says
that while you breathe is
experiencing the whole body is
aware of what is happening
both inside and out this
softens attention to encompass a
greater field of consciousness but then
comes the most important step in the
instruction of the sat and patanas utah that
other methods and practices omit or pass
overlooked the student reassures the
body formation on inhalation and
calms the bodily formation in the
exhalation italics have been
added by us this is the step
critical that will lead you to deletion
of desire and attainment of nirvana because
this relaxation step is ignored or
it is simply treated as a step
general relaxation of the body other
methods do not appreciate the importance of
this is not seen as an active step in the
practice is only understood as a
general relaxation but not a
active relaxation of tension in the
head a tension that is actually
contained in the very thought of
done is a critically important step
that goes against concentration
deep because focusing hard creates
tension not tranquility
what are you relaxing are you
relaxing tension and contraction
which are signs of longing a longing that
gives rise to thought and all kinds of
habitual emotional tendencies what
makes the mind wander
ramblings and thoughts that's all
these are mental formations
the buddha addresses all this noise of the
distractions and asks us to relax and
let's calm all this here too
there is the date of lana pan asad and her m n
118 this step goes after the
instructions to calm down
body training mn 118 he trains
to inspire by experiencing the
mental training he trains himself
exhale experiencing training
mentally he trains himself to inspire and
reassuring the mental formation he
train yourself to exhale and calming the
mental formation then here we see that
the buddha is asking us to relax
specifically the body and mind
as a global process and specifically
that we relax the thoughts that are
the mental formations that arise
because the thought arises
everything attracts your attention thoughts
feelings sensations etc.
pleasant feelings beckon you
for you to come and try them and
unpleasant feelings prick you
so you don't like them because they are
other without restriction
little by little you come to realize
how this really is suffering
notice distractions or obstacles that
arise and ignore them or push them away or follow
the advice to clench your teeth and
put the tongue against the palate
remove and destroy them is not the way
to let go of distractions because
because you have not put aside the cause of
that distraction that is desire
attraction of the mind to
Thought add a step to be able
actively release tension and
oppression in the head that makes your
mind wandering is what the buddha gave himself
account that continually reduces the
energy from those distractions
distraction will fade naturally
by itself because it relaxes the
tension and oppression that feed it
the more attention
something greater is our attention and more
thoughts are generated free your
Attention reduces thoughts and
tension we want to actively release
our attention from distractions
we do not want to reject them since that only
makes them stronger
the buddha called this right effort
sambava calls in twin is called six
erres this is the way it is
obstacles are removed and desire is
remove little by little we will discuss this
process later as
let's move on the instructions in my
magnet and fell to mn number 36 the most to kaka
his is clearly states that after
that the buddha tried to control his
mind through gritting teeth and
so on he discovered that his
efforts instead of controlling your mind
exhausted him or caused restlessness
I crushed the mind with the mind and the
sweat ran from my armpits but even though
a tireless energy awoke in me
and full attention was established
incessant my body was on
excited and not calm because he was
exhausted by the painful effort this
effort did not work try to control
the obstacles in this extreme way is
just use dislike to push away
what you don't want in this there is no
true letting go but only a rejecting
we have created another obstacle how many
times have you heard some
meditators say damn I can't
make my mind do what i want
what to do is really driving me
crazy you can't use an obstacle to
remove another obstacle in other
words the control will not work the
right path must be something else there
an article on the internet in which a
meditation teacher hannah wrote
about his self retirement practicing
concentration meditation said that
made a nine-month retreat and that the
I spend the first four months fighting
with his mind to stay in the
breathing
fighting how can produce that
peace of mind there is no faster way
to progress if there is
wait you just said four months to
focus the practice of
concentration tries to control the
mind and separate thoughts and
distracting sensations tries to
focus on the object and move away from the
Mind that the Buddha is distracted in the
texts tell us not to suppress what
that he calls the impurities in the and
good will and shut up in the sama enjoy
in various places this appears with
pretty clear at 5.27 4 a
knowledge arises that is personally
yours this concentration is peaceful and
sublime obtained through a complete
tranquility and that arrives at the
unification is not pressured or
controls by removing impurities with
strength look at the previous word
concentration in Pali is actually
samadhi that the venerable struggle that has already
translated as state of wisdom
calm or a state of recollection
above paragraph is from the sama enjoy and
It is called and translated as
concentration and that is not correct
you are beginning to see that the
concentration methodology that the buddha
I had already rejected keep trying
return to the teachings as what
you're trying to achieve is to remove the
I wish you should see it and understand it
push it away absorption just leaves
set aside on a shelf in such a way that
when you exit absorption gain the
obstacles become even stronger as
a mad dog you open the door and
then he attacks you with full force in
instead of turning away from distraction
just relax and accept that it is
there the buddha discovered that relaxing the
tension and rigidity of things that
are gradually pulling your mind
will reduce the energy of those
distractions finally after
release enough tension and
stiffness distraction will fade
by itself because it is because you are not
feeding you are not reacting to it
this is what it means to reassure
relax any tension or stiffness that
are quickly causing you
make you think
when you react to your wandering mind with
dislike i don't like this
the reaction itself is the desire that you are
trying to remove you need
calm down this reaction relax
smooth you into her let her be stop
hit yourself
as it happens in your you're reassuring
is an action verb implies to remove
deliberately softening and relaxing
any stiffness and tension in the mind
or the body is not just a relaxation
overall body mood
you see a beautiful woman walking down the street
street your mind has a feeling
nice and a craving arises I like it
you can feel your mind getting rigid
around the shape of the woman then
thoughts about her come wow
I haven't seen her before she asked me about
where did it come then yes when we are
sitting and using the meditation of
concentration we begin to think about
this lovely lady experience
we must pull or even shake
our mind to return to our
meditation object
we try to keep her there trying to
set aside studies tracks
but because we don't allow that
distracted mind that arose to be there
by itself and do not actively relax
the tension and stiffness around you
sensual desire arose even more
thoughts we keep thinking more
thoughts because the longing embedded
in those thoughts it continues to generate
more thought then we started to
get angry because our thoughts
are out of control and we get frustrated
and we thought what it would be like to have
constantly passionate thoughts
constantly thinking and powerless
be still then we think about it even more
and we completely miss a dream
could turn into a nightmare
The answer to this problem lies in the
moment in which the image arose and arose
the pleasant sensation that you wish
begin to relax immediately in that
perception what you do is release your
attention to that topic to relax the tension
about it then the rest of the
thoughts do not arise either
frustrated because you have really let go and
you have not repressed the word at all
reassure in modern usage often
refers to stress relief
one could use a tranquilizing drug
to take the stress out of it
way we are reassuring the
obstacle and removing its tension and
stiffness returning to the history of
awakening of the buddha sat down again
meditate but this time he relaxed and let go
the clenched mental fist on which
I had wrapped those thoughts that
they took his mind out of the present he relaxed
and calmed the attention that arose in
his mind in his head at first
night watch
the buddha followed this method reached the 4th
hannah conscious and calm when one
add relaxation step progress
in hannah's practice it's really
fast the buddha called progress
immediately effective to cali co imphal
and from there the triple arose
knowledge remembered their past lives
experienced other realms and realized
how karma worked finally
seeing with wisdom understanding the
dependent origin reached or go to that
same morning the awakening process
of the Buddha was what is called the three
knowledge of bihar
but the process of going through the urge
is the same we will talk about this more
late however what I teach the most as
in the year pda's utah that we will study to
continuation is the road that crosses
the four material desires and the four
immaterial states until reaching aníbal
again these are the desire
conscious calm not the desire to
absorption of yoga or other methods in the
magma ni shut up the buddha teaches desire in
50 routes out of 152 clearly the Buddha
recommends the hannah trail for the
wake up alone you have to be the type
hannah's right besides the fact that
that the calm conscious desire
twin will take you to ni go to one
significant win advantage
conscious is that they develop in a
fraction of time less than it takes
to achieve the desire for absorption
considers that the buddha taught many
uneducated farmers as well as
princes had to have a system
simple meditation that was
immediately effective to cali co these
farmers had no time or interest
in a practice that took them a long time
time understand and master relax the
tension and stiffness gradually eliminates
the obstacles with the practice of
concentration on one point all that
you are doing is deleting the
obstacles for a short period of time
weather
they keep coming back after
that your power of
concentration so you must set aside
these obstacles every time you sit down
to meditate with the desire to absorb
meditators do not like
disturb your meditation for example
a loud sound arises and the
aversion for the most part the reaction to
an obstacle is aversion or
restlessness you try to overcome that obstacle
in twins you are treating the disease to
itself
eliminating stress and stiffness from the
obstacle for him to lose his power
comparing conscious hannah to hannah
of concentration while we are
sitting meditating on the desire
conscious we can still hear sounds
and if the bar the teacher calls us what
we listen immediately and can
reply immediately someone could
touch us on the shoulder and say something
we will feel and we can choose to respond
at the same time when a motorcycle
noisy is outside the room
meditation mental balance is
present we hear but not
pay attention the mind use the step
to relax to observe accept and
release the obstacle that keeps us away
attention when you enter the desire
higher you experience a kind of
distance from the body because in the
immaterial desire arup to where there is only
mind is being worked on a higher level
subtle the senses have remained in the
background only when there is contact
you notice the outside world
the word contact here means that
something happens that catches your attention something
unexpected like the teacher's call or
the ringing of the telephone some teachers
they can advise you to stay
away from the desire to concentrate
because you could get attached or even
get addicted to them actually this
may be true for absorption is
say the desire to concentrate on a
point since they can become really
intense you may get caught because
some are very happy and you could
stand still there
I have read comments in spaces of
online discussion where people
they experience a desire for absorption and
they think they are enlightened they talk about
how wonderful it is however only
they have reached the first hannah yet
there is much more to learn but because
the buddha would give you a practice that
have potential difficulties such as
this and it would not be natural for a
student did not want to go ahead and
see what comes next if we base ourselves on
the texts of the routes the buddha does not
gave the desire for absorption already had
rejected in the first part of his
trip
mn 36 you have nothing to worry about
relationship to stick to desire
aware is like saying that you are
attached to the third level and never
you want to advance to the fourth because no longer
Do you want to learn anything new with
conscious desire we are always
Looking to progress to see what's next
the his you are many times it is said that the
meditator can easily experience
this or that state of conscious hannah
but that he knows that this is not the
final experience is to say that there is more
to do
then the meditator continues the
progress does not stop at mn 105 is a
cata his is says that the meditator al
reach the kingdom of nothingness now
awaits the realm of neither perception nor no
perception wants nothing to do
with the previous state and indeed
even considers it repulsive 14 is
possible is a tasting that someone
here you may be interested in the base
of my perception and non-perception when
a person has an interest in the basis of
my perception and non-perception only
interested in talking about it and its
thought and reflection are online
with that and is associated with that kind of
people and find satisfaction in it
but when talking about the base of the
nothing will not listen to him or will not lend him
attention or he will not strain his mind to
understanding it is not associated with that type
of person and does not find satisfaction
in that 15 suppose that a person has
eaten a delicious meal and has
vomited what do you think is a tasting could
that man have some desire to eat
that food again
venerable sir why is that because
that food is considered repulsive is
unlikely that the experiences that
have when you practice a hannah
consciously repeat themselves in the same way
are stages of progress for example
when one has an understanding can
bring a little joy but no
wait for that again now you have acquired
that understanding and there is no more
learn from this that understanding has already
gone down in history progress is
incredibly fast when using the
step to relax on the sat and patanas utah
the buddha says that awakening can
occur in a single lifetime in seven years
six years five years or even as little
in seven days when you follow the
instructions accurately progress
can be very fast on a twin withdrawal
typical 10 to 14 days most
students will reach the 4th hannah and
many of them will reach the bases or
Shapeless grouped upper gray hairs
some might even succeed
first awakening experience
occurs in all retreats but some
people are just ready to
they understand and follow the
instructions perfectly and have a
successful retirement in all senses of
the word when we release the tension and
the rigidity of an obstacle
gradually disappears when that
happen you will have joy for the first time
you have freed yourself from desire until
another obstacle appears this experience
is the basis of the first conscious gray hair
and quiet a deep state of mind
full of energy balanced and sublime
from which you can clearly see
mental and personal processes
from here you begin to see deeply
the 12 links of the dependent origin and
in due time by releasing all the
conditions you will reach a state
unconditional in summary twin
understanding meditation
quiet wisdom is not a practice
of concentration meditation is a
recollection meditation practice
chapter 4 types of practice
concentration the great variety of
concentration practice methods
I want to summarize the main
types of meditation techniques
concentration or absorption that exist in
Buddhist practices today
especially in the Theravada tradition
This does not include all of them but the
Prevalent generic types include
the following concentration of
total absorption using objects of
meditation like breathing
visualizations candle flames or discs
of colors to get absorbed
completely in the object comprehension
arid or understanding dry in sight
where the meditator is not absorbed in the
object but uses observation
to develop understanding with
dry media without the use of a
deep absorption concentration in
single point insight meditation
with concentration a mixture of the two
above using the concentration
of total absorption to develop the
8 desire to absorb and then emerge and
observe the mind and develop the
deep understanding insight vipassana
we have already discussed the meditation of
complete absorption created by the
concentration so let's see the second
point type
arid or dry understanding drink state
Today in the Theravada tradition there is
a few different kinds of practices
there is one called directly
vipassana or direct vipassana also
called dry or dry understanding or
understanding meditation that was
developed by the venerable ma thus
stamped from burma a similar system
is the practice of scanning and awareness
body developed by uva kings of
burma now taught all over the world
by sn goenka from india try
avoid concentration gene uptake
as discussed above to
students are told they must
healthy ones should be avoided as they can
stick to them as a distraction
for your real work focused on the
comprehension awareness exercise
arid you are told there is a shortcut to
avoid what is perceived as a
long and arduous development with the desire
this shortcut consists of the development of
a technique to scan the body
consciously by looking at the
bodily sensations and see your
true nature you are told that
you will achieve awakening in the tradition
more and of arid understanding
follow your breath and write down
mentally each experience that arises
They call it writing down or taking notes.
verbal mental such as listening
hear or hot hot whenever you
attention away from your breath or
walking meditation practice
they say that this will take you to ni will to very
quickly much faster than use
of the desire for absorption that can
take many months or years to achieve
more and sealed says you can reach
nor are they going to in just a withdrawal of 30
days with the arid comprehension method
that is why many people
are attracted to this system because
to these benefits that it promises seems
be fast and well designed with
clear instructions and steps of
progress i remember reading this
statement in an admiral's book
saturn on the course of vipasa na in
Burma 40 years ago and I was moved
a lot when reading it I already imagined myself
himself as a holy and enlightened person
who was on the bus on the trip from
return from my first 30 day withdrawal
then i could take things with
calm down in fact I started making withdrawals
in a denver basement
divided into sections with curtains
taught by an American man
trained itself and white it was
extremely serious and demanded that we
we will stay awake until
midnight and then we'll get up at
4 in the morning and that was my first
30 day retreat in the end I felt more
like i got jailed i was 19
years ago now 43 years i tried that
I walk for many years
experiencing the most
understanding knowledge or lullabies that
are said to indicate progress in that
method later I lived and worked in a
vipassana center in san jose
california but the experiences that
I had with this method did not produce the
personality change than routes
indicate what one should expect from the
meditation those experiences of
understanding were very intense and
they happened just as he wrote more and
sealed but still had the same
old and neurotic ego after retirement
maybe he was a little nicer or
I was just fooling myself into thinking it was
holier for having seen these
knowledge will see you malara msi of 28
years
he was not yet a monk and had a name
layman at that time appeared in the
center being an expert carpenter and
building houses in san francisco se
volunteered to build
our meditation room made a
very beautiful work with carpets
white and stained glass I saw it again years
then in 2006 after a lapse of
25 years he had become a monk and
he had gone to burma and had passed
many years in the famous center of
meditation more and in yangon he trained
with the venerable sealed bandage and then
with the venerable wuhan here practicing
vipassana style more and i came to know
thanks ahead that even in burma
myanmar progress for meditators
it was very difficult to achieve observed
many students while practicing
there he made many three-month retreats and
finally a two-year retreat had
made all those retreats and experiences
before his teacher told him that
had achieved the end result that is
a little more than 30 days
late I question this achievement because its
experience did not match their
you are even after having
completed all those withdrawals did not feel
that will undergo a fundamental change
of personality when I put myself in
contact with him told me about his
experiences in burma in post
detailed electronics my confidence in
their detailed descriptions of what
had achieved in practice
vipassana understanding reached such a point
that I realized that maybe the
vipassana itself was the problem
was producing the change that one
I hoped I had pushed it to the limit and
had experienced the 16 knowledge
and now he had decided to move on to something else
when i looked at your website i found it very
stranger talked about smiling and relaxing
there was no pep talk with
attitudes of the type you have to work hard
even more he usually says if you can't
smile
laugh this is not serious and this is a
serious practice truth point point point
Or maybe this is precisely the problem
the practice of dry comprehension or the
other vipassana method and it seems to me to be
other
of concentration a practice of
focused meditation on one point
is achieved is achieved by rejecting the
obstacles and holding tightly the
object of meditation instead of
simply knowing the object as
the quotes say the object of
powerful and focused way without the step of
relax they say go into your pain and get in
right in the middle of it look at his nature
of appearing and disappearing keep looking at it
and writing it down until it disappears but
that implies controlling your consciousness
which creates tension goenka teaches something
similar with a sweep exercise
body but with the same type of
mindfulness that focuses on
sensations that arise from the method of
sweep recognizes distractions and
let go and move on but forget
the whole relaxing step of removing the
tension and rigidity from distraction
this technique is still a type of
concentration practice focusing on
the sensations more than the
breathing with twins meditation
you observe a painful sensation and
knowing that it is there you release your
attention from her
any tension and stiffness that is
leading your conscience to pain
stay with the pain that is to say no
that doesn't work that doesn't relieve the stiffness
and the tension of concentrating on that
painful sensation with a state of mind
already tense and when trying to observe it more
up close you will not get more information
to free you from suffering alone
there will be more suffering they will describe you
have done the process of more and
finally move beyond the pain but
it was just a temporary suppression of the
pain said he had subjected it for
his meditation and finally had
forced to actually disappear
this type of meditation provides a
progress in the plain vipassana which are
the stages of arid comprehension that
they explain in the beat sub ddi maga they are very
real and for this reason provide
much credibility to this practice there are 9
12 or 16 knowledge depends on the text
that you read that arise when you follow the
instructions as recommended
make the books of massey and the viso
understanding they are not on dates when
we practice the relaxation step these
stadiums do not appear they explain that
he did experience these comprehensions and
knowledge to the point of
road review knowledge
is the highest of knowledge
of deep understanding and that arises
just after the achievement of the cni vana without
however was saddened by the fact that
he had not experienced the change of
personality and the awake state that
I expected I think people are
impressed by this system
arid understanding because it gives the
results it promises and these
results are very interesting but
It is also true that it is an acid trip
which can also lead one to see the
impermanence suffering and
impersonality if it has some foundations
and a Buddhist intellectual context without
however you will not see the dependent origin the
budah describes the vision of the links
of the dependent origin as the door still
iguana he says who sees the links
you will definitely see the three signs of
impermanence suffer
and not me but the one who only sees the three
signs will not automatically see the origin
dependent see and understand
profoundly dependent origin is
what causes personality change
that's why when you leave the state
meditative absorption in
as opposed to the conscious state of
hannah your personality with all its
neurosis is still intact continues
being the same you only see things
surface level because still
there's craving there the only thing you've ever done
reveal the most mental processes
subtle many vipassana meditators
find their practice falls after
from a certain point and many will think that it is
their own fault they are not moving forward
they think they just need to do more
withdrawals need to push even harder
finally many give up and
they think the problem was them and not
practice think maybe next
life is have more strength I will have more
merits
I myself had these experiences and not
I had no real change and quit
practice follow buddhist studies
but I lost interest in practice and
I always wondered if I was lost
something everyone else had
discovered concentration comprehension
versus understanding arid dri inscribed is
true that the desire for absorption is
very intense and you could get attached to them
remove obstacles completely
a short period and you leave the state
janico experiencing great bliss and
happiness but it doesn't last also no
you learn nothing with it it's like a drug
what do you take and then simply
the effect wears off and it's all over
can be some kind of addiction
escape to a kingdom of happiness and
get away from life for a short period
of time in another twist of the practice of
concentration absorption you learn the
hannah absorption practice but then
you are told that when you get out of that
concentrated state after leaving the
absorption you must observe the states that
are arising and disappearing in that
same moment using what you know
think it is
powerful mindfulness you shine
this powerful light on your states
emergent mindsets you are told to notice
the fundamentals of mindfulness
observe the three signs inherent in
they of impermanence suffering in
personality the masters of this method
They claim that when you see these signs with
the powerful awareness of experience
of absorption wins you get powerful
understandings and finally experience
not even iguanas use the ones you are for
endorse this method of practice but
they are misinterpreting the routes
routes explain the factors that make up
the desire speaks about its nature
impermanent and impersonal and as
observe these mental factors
you will get understanding but not
suppressing desire and obstacles
with the absorption concentration is at
allow obstacles to arise and
release them gently or control the
that naturally fade these
concentration practices are based on
the appearance of a magician once again there it is said
that once you reach hannah you walk out of
that hannah and you begin to observe with the
power of concentration obtained
full attention to observe the
mental processes in this way when seeing
how it works understand its nature
impermanence suffering in
personality
anika duca anata elvis udima ga emphasizes
that this understanding is so deep that
you reach or go to some claim that
this is what they mean
sutace when they talk about the meditator who
look at the factors and characteristics
of the healthy ones use the routes to
support this technique when in
reality is not about that in the animated
Utah
it is said that the meditator observes many
factors as you go through the
you want but you are already in the mood watching
these factors and you do not need to go outside to
observe this in fact as soon as
the jana disappears so do the
Hannah factors do not exist outside of the
Jana you can't watch the later the
powerful and happy hannah state of
concentration from which the
mind has suppressed in the first instance
all the longing that was causing the
suffering what was the longing that
was being suppressed were the
obstacles
the goal of meditation to eliminate
obstacles and purify the mind in
its practice if we put aside the
obstacles with strong concentration
how can we hope to understand its cause
root the concentration meditator with
understanding using the desire to
absorption will see the aggregates arising and
disappearing indeed can see certain
impermanence suffering in
personality but will not see deeply
the links of the dependent origin
most people who read the
sutras only know the practice of
absorption concentration are not
aware of a calm hannah and
Conscious when I came out [ __ ] says in the
basement for which one is aware of
the factors of the first win as
that occur is because it is in the first
win by describing them as they are
happening at that time so far not
I have read no person who proclaims
who has achieved awakening by practicing
this method of entering into the desire to
absorption and then go out and review the
mental factors many have described
this practice but none of the ones I've
read declares that there are meditators who
have had xxi
with her in the end you may get
some understanding by observing the mind
but you just can't go deep
enough to be able to see the
dependent origin links and
you certainly can't get
understanding by analyzing or thinking about what
that you are observing understanding
deep is beyond thought
Can't leave something longing to be
able to obscure your vision and this is
something that still happens with the
concentration meditation to be able to
see directly inside
mind when there is no such desire in it
as it happens during conscious jana
will lead an ivan to care with the
absorption concentration last few
words about meditation
concentration the concentration in a
point can be dangerous that can be
too strong a word but if it is
TRUE
rutten and are a famous professor of
meditation in california did a retreat
zen as a first step in investigating the
meditation as a path to
enlightenment by doing the meditation of the
breathing in a concentrated way
experienced a mental breakdown and ended
in one
hospital after this I reject this
method and developed a style herself
of attention more balanced than
was integrated with the dance and the
movement there have been many problems
caused by concentration you can
search the web for the danger of
concentration meditation and you will find
certain number of items is a given
little known that after his own
negative experience
Ruth worked at your center in Joshua.
Tree' California Navy Lady Center
to heal with people who had
lost touch with reality
due to the practice of absorption or
arid understanding the connection of their
mind with your body at various levels
had been interrupted she worked with
them to put their hands in the ground
or have them build monuments of
stone so that they could recover the
connection with their bodies these were
people who came from traditions
who used meditation
concentration as a practice I was in
various twin meditation retreats
understanding of calm wisdom in
its center and while I was there I heard
to ruth talk about this topic
At a retreat I was introduced to a
person who had been sent there she
she looked quite unhappy she was withdrawn
I had little energy and didn't even have
the ability to sit there was a
kind of hopelessness in her voice when
said hello ruth was very good at
get these back into balance
people and I certainly hope that
I was successful with this girl in
vipassana particularly nowadays
many people talk about the stage of
the dark night of the soul
meditation this is quite a term
new to me but it's just
of the upper stages of the
meditation where knowledge arises
of fear among other states
these are standard levels of
knowledge and I myself went through them and
I was told that it will just weather them
they were never called that way but I know
what they are is the fear of dying because
you see there is no me there however no
you are balanced and anxious mind
arises and presents itself in the form of a great
fear due to the fact that you are
taking all this personally nothing
of these nasty things happen in
twingo meditation and yeah
practice the six R's or the lo
free if you relax considering it as
yet another twin hurdle involves letting go
the yearning mind and thus gain more and more
balance and happy states
Mental breakdowns don't happen with
frequently but can occur when the
meditator pushes too hard
striving to crush your obstacles
with brain power instead of relaxing
in them and leave them the teachers of
meditation that use desire
concentration point out the routes for
verify that what they are doing is
correct but again they forget that the
Buddha rejected those methods of
concentration on a popular practice of
desire to concentrate the author of a
book about the desire to concentrate and
how to develop them states that three of
every thousand students will experience the
joy or piti that lights up and then
can't be turned off this is when the
pity gets stuck and never seems to
it goes away this can last for weeks
months even up to a year
luckily this is pretty rare already
that there are no solutions really
more effective than waiting for it to end
which seems to be helpful
is to be connected to the earth exercise
manual labor and eating heavy food
as meat he describes that when he whistled
stays active and doesn't stop it's like a
high energy feeling like a
somewhat unpleasant hum that continues
whether you are sitting in meditation or
no sometimes the only thing that creates is insomnia
another problem that is also reported in
the book is that sometimes students
they want to skip the first hannah
intentionally because the intense piti
brings back painful memories too
related issues that
recommended to beat in the states
associated with the second and third
hannah or something must be done in order to
avoid a certain problem the ultras are not
compatible with the desire to
concentration absorption nor with the method
of dry vision do not support the emergence
of painful states in a practice that
gradually eliminate the craving step by step
step its defenders say it is more
fast then we are saying that the
buddha gave us the slow path
supreme knowledge of the buddha there must be
seen the best and fastest way
I think we can assume
the su's support twin when
relaxation step is used
negative states arise if you are
They say that you continue with your meditation at
through the healthy and after the base
of my perception and non-perception you follow
meditating on what some call a
ninth jana
this is the complete cessation of movement
of the mind gradually the movement
mental slower and slower
starting from the first hannah until arriving
based on my perception and not
perception there are eight steps or levels and
there is a point where the mind finally
it stops if you think about it
meaning of this is not so much that
climb higher and higher in the
meditation rather it happens that you go every
lower and slower until everything
stops none occurs
interruption in the meditative process
goes naturally through the process and
understandings will emerge until
the mind stops and enters the
sensation the basis and object of
meditation for meditation
understanding of quiet wisdom is
meta and the four brama you travel following
directly the are you
some additional methods used
in twin as the one to break the barriers and
send goal to a spiritual friend who
They are very useful in the initial stages
of meditation when your meditation
twin has developed to a certain
level after you go to follow the routes
accurately and uses the irradiate
in all six directions as
teaches in the brama method saw a thing
which is not used in this practice meta and
twin which is used by most
The bars of more master bars is
repeat the same four statements
again and again this is a way
traditional to develop meditation
meta with the twin method you bring the
sincere feeling of the desire for goodness
loving and you put that feeling in your
heart you surround your spiritual friend you
object of meditation with that feeling
and he is flooded with this feeling the way
in which most people teach
goal is an intellectual exercise instead
of a meditation on feelings
turns a practice into a mantra
single point concentration
to repeat the desire to be happy over and over again
again in twin you use this desire
to remind yourself to have the
feeling of loving-kindness later
as your practice becomes more
profunda will drop the phrases completely
the result of doing this is not a
dry intellectual experience but more
well an exercise of feelings that
elevates the mind and helps you to be happy
continually repeat the same
statements leaves no room for
the feeling should develop
develop a sincere feeling and
wish your spiritual friend to be happy
so that goal or loving kindness can
take hold instead of repeating
wishes over and over again
mante advises to show a smile to
remember the feeling a smile on
your heart in your mind and also in your
secular buddhism lips a new
variant of Buddhism has gone
establishing itself is the so-called Buddhism
secular teaches only the parts of the
buddhism we can see for ourselves
ourselves and in which we do not need to believe
buddha in secular buddhism
we tend to see these lives and
remember them for ourselves here and
now however in fact there are some
students who remember past lives
and a whole industry of hypnotherapist
of past life regression has arisen
to address past lives and issues
psychological aspects of those lives that have been
infiltrated in the present it seems that the
purest secular Buddhist practice
try to get the buddha out of buddhism offers
a distorted view of mindfulness
as just a tool with which
therapeutically target the reduction
of stress and healing of the individual
what happened to cni ivan what happened to the
deep insight into the
impermanence and impersonality where
there is the longing secular buddhism
remove Buddhist concepts because
are seen as strangers and as
religious verbiage and unnecessary for
solve one's problems even
there is a magazine about mindfulness with
that same title that does not contain a
single reference to the buddha all
Pali terms have been left out
I took a walk in the bookstore the other day
and now the section on Buddhism only
for a shelf the care books
plenary have passed to the section of
self help leaving the dalai lama' alone
together with you they travel that keeps you company
in the religions section of the
Orientals do not speak of a
higher understanding or enlightenment
mindfulness is just another tool
which has been added to the set of
psychotherapeutic tools this
supposes the weakening of Buddhism
msr or the reduction program
mindfulness-based stress is a
program in which mindfulness is
uses ideas for therapeutic purposes
impersonality buddhists
impermanence don't really play a
important role the dependent origin
surely missing basically is about
to observe the breath and do
slow walking meditation
calm the mind the goal that is
pursues is to reduce stress and
anxiety is considered not possible
reach enlightenment and eliminate
permanently the longing
now there are even apps for that
your phone facilitates a meditation
cuts 5 to 10 minutes on the
breathing or body awareness
you can do every day to
de-stress the intense practice of
mindfulness meditation has been
diluted from the beginning of the
introduction of styles
buddhist practice meditation
vipassana and goenka in the early
years 70 today there are more people meditating
however now fewer people are
deepening your practice another
combination of Buddhism is a style of
meditation called advanta and is based on
ancient vedanta practices is a
non-dual practice of Hindu root or the
practice of a philosophy of unity
some famous examples are the hard o
law aka anti practice focuses on
observe what arises in the moment
present and not try to control or
analyze some call this attention
no choice just allowed
that is there and the mind is allowed to
calm down and deepen until you reach a
level of unity the Tibetan practice of
shock is similar since you observe this
open field of consciousness 5
experience this practice can be
quite useful up to a point and is
pretty close to what the buddha taught
about what it means to be
truly aware certainly
makes your practice become a
observation process instead of
trying too hard to achieve
a certain state or experience simply
allows everything there is even up to the
about to investigate who is meditating
and you are trying to achieve this is the
first step to release the controller
Ania Santi explains that instead of
control meditation you must let go of the
meditative as one goes deeper and
the activity of the mind slows down
its defenders explain that little by little
get to know the essence or spirit
underlying everything that you call it
the sacred towards sant and calls it to arrive
to a state of unchanging unity and
blissful this is a variation of the
belief in a soul or higher being
immutable means a permanent state
at the end of the practice brahm abyara
twin described here the feeling
of equanimity disappears now you will be
tell the doctor
that take this calm mind as the
object of his meditation observes
any movement and releases and relaxes
those movements at the moment
arise come back to calm mind this
sounds like what practice achieves
vedanta or choiceless awareness and
these meditation practices can be
useful however cannot go further
Of a calm mind and getting to see
that there is below this since the
step relax the base of tui is not used
here you will not understand how to relax the
mental strain to go even deeper
with that step tool relax
you pass a level where one could
come to think that there is a type
permanent spirit until reaching a
even deeper level and ultimately
instance you reach the deepest
of all the very beginning of everything
mental when your mind hardly moves and
you are able to observe carefully
full power you will not be able to find something
as well as being only moments of
consciousness that arise and disappear in
an endless stream of this
understanding arises disenchantment and then
dispassion
waking up now let's see how the
meditation practice twin meditation
of comprehension of calm wisdom
can take us through all four
conscious calm desire included
the four formless bases contained in
the 4th hannah culminating in the achievement of the
cni vain if you follow what the utah say
without any additional interpretation
this is what will happen this is the
quiet progress where in sight
meditation o twin meditation
calm wisdom understanding
the frogs described hereafter
they are the calm and conscious desire
in this kind of hannah you are aware
both mind and body
the buddha said we can never
understand ourselves bars a
unless we look at the totality of
who we are and let's see nature
impersonal of all that arises not
we can control nothing by rejecting or
trying to stop what arises only to
through the acceptance of what is
in the present without avoiding it
control it but by seeing it clearly without
mental noise or longing we can achieve the
release a note here about
morality the buddha's system is based on
a moral vision of the world if you realize
harmful actions to these will follow
painful results and mental states
that things create obstacles
healthy and what will be deducted from it
is something healthy meditation is
completely healthy if you want to have
success in your meditation you must at least
follow the five precepts
will lead to the most optimal progress what are
these five precepts do not kill do not steal
don't lie or swear don't get involved in
inappropriate sexual conduct such as
adultery and not take intoxicants or
alcohol is not difficult and it is said that
follow these simple guidelines
provides a prosperous existence and
happy in this life and the next
follow these five prescribed precepts
by the buddha as his point of reference
morality will help your meditation to be
very deep by not committing more acts
harmful
you will be free of guilt and remorse
and your mind will be at peace and quiet
during retreats there are three precepts
extras to help you tune in
tea
going not eating after noon no
participate in entertainment and not use
perfumes or makeup summary of the
meditation instructions the meditator
beginner will spend a few days or weeks
cultivating loving-kindness towards oneself
yourself and a spiritual friend using
Phrases that help the
feeling of loving kindness that is
happy that he can be at peace like me
I'm happy I want you to be happy this
process will take you to the 4th hannah a
As I progress you will continue
radiating meta in the six directions
and progress us from the 4th hannah to
the base of nothing and beyond stance
initial before meditating is useful
find a place relatively
quiet and sit comfortably and in
upright position not required
sit cross-legged and
going into full lotus really isn't
necessary a seated posture that is
familiar to your body will cause less
distractions and will be more useful than one in
the one that the body feels uncomfortable or
have pain in the west to many
meditators find it difficult to sit
in the psoe
in that case use a chair and don't cause yourself
unnecessary pain or discomfort
in the soil does not produce any kind of
special magic prevents lying down
heavily on the back of the
chair sit with your vertebrae
stacked one on top of the other
posture should be comfortable the objectives
are to reduce any real physical cause
tension and pain and improve the state
alert we will meet
enough mental obstacles that we
will keep instructions busy
initials of loving kindness when
practice mindfulness meditation
Full to loving-kindness begins by
radiate yourself or feelings
loving and kind remember a moment
that you have been happy when that arises
happy feeling is a feeling
warm and bright some complain about it
we hear a lot that they can't
remember no good memories then
feeling of love when that baby
smile you smile too
Another idea is to imagine that you are holding a
cute puppy when you look at the puppy
naturally you want to smile and play with
he the sensation that you are creating is a
bright and sincere warm feeling that
radiate from your eyes your mind and your
heart once you have established
this feeling use this feeling
to wish happiness to yourself like this
as he was happy then let him be happy
now continue with phrases like que esta
in peace that he is happy that he can be
calm
Do you know what it feels like to be
calm and at peace then put that
feeling and yourself in the center of
your heart and turn to yourself with
that feeling of happiness when that
feeling fades mentions another
phrase to remember the feeling that
be calm that be happy that
be full of joy now give yourself a big
hug from the heart and
sincerely wishes you to be happy love yourself
yourself and mean it this
feeling is your object of meditation
every time the feeling fades
repeat
verbally wish sometimes in your
mind just repeat enough times
as for the feeling to appear
you turn it into a mantra that is to say a
phrase over and over again will not bring the
feeling we want phrase only
reminds us to bring the feeling
again when this arises we release the
phrase there are other teachers who focus
in saying the phrases over and over again and that
doesn't work that will just turn it into
a practice of concentration based on
that phrase some people visualize
easily others no it is not important that
see clearly your object of meditation
you just have to know that it is there keep the
feeling of yourself at the center of your
chest wrapped in this feeling of
happiness and to be happy and if
we really want you to feel good
feel at peace or calm or loving or
gentle or kind generous or cheerful or
clear or calm or with acceptance
feel good sitting down and
feeling all this is good to feel
well allow yourself to be present feeling
this satisfaction
now there's nowhere to go
you're on a little vacation from the
life now there is nothing to do but
be happy and radiate that feeling
you can do that don't try to be happy
be happy feel happy feel in
peace here and now you have our permission
to be happy at least during the
next 30 minutes
This is a meditation on the
feelings but don't focus on
excess in the center of your chest trying
to provoke a feeling of goodness
loving do not force a feeling where
your whole body as you say the
phrases evoke this feeling and so
will resonate in your heart area by itself
only with sincerity of seat is happiness
believe what you really do and be aware that
if you want happiness for yourself or
just stay with this
feeling recognizes that it is there smiles
with it it is possible that some
blocks like saying no to yourself
I don't deserve to be this happy
aversion to your own happiness is a
distraction we will talk about the
distractions will be shortly
we will explain the method to deal with
them so you can afford and
train yourself to feel true kindness
loving for a longer period of time
long later when you start to
feel this feeling towards others
You have to know that blockages can arise
similar and that these are also
distractions there is no reason why
others may not be happy too
goal is first to accept and allow yourself
be happy and at peace yourself
So when you feel this happiness
in your own mind you'll be happy to
share that feeling with others
beings when you sit do not move no
wiggle your toes don't give
shake or be irritated do not rub
sit as still as the monk of
down when you feel still mind
it calms down if there is any movement
mind will be distracted the same as when
prepare the gelatin
cool down and you don't have to shake the for
so that you can solidify your smile
this is a smiling meditation
reason why you should smile is because
it has been discovered that when
corners of the mouth rise as well
your state of mind does when
corners of your mouth go down too
does your state of mind put a small
smile on your lips but you don't
stop there put a smile on your
eyes even though your eyes are closed
you will notice that there can be a lot of tension in
the eyes
put a smile on your mind and
especially with a smile on your
heart can be a mechanical smile
at first with time it will become
in a sincere feeling of happiness
should be a smile that conveys
loving kindness it is important to create hair
smile with your lips smile from your
mind and smile from your heart if you
mind drifts away 25 times in one session and
Meditation definitely may
not be a quiet meditation and
calm but it is an active meditation and
that can be a good meditation every
time your mind wanders away and comes back and
you relax and smile you are developing your
ability to see a distraction and
letting it go you are improving your attention
fill your power of observation as
that you practice will improve and your powers
of observation will be strengthened
distractions while practicing
meditation target your mind this way
it will pay you what we mean by ramble
you are with your object of meditation with
that warm and glowing feeling in the
center of your chest you are experiencing
this feeling and suddenly you get distracted
with some thought or sensation can
be an itching sensation a desire
cough a burning sensation or a
painful sensation in the leg can
be a memory of a conversation with
a friend from a trip to a lake or could
be a thought about something
you need to buy in the store
suddenly you are with that distraction in
place of with your object of
in other words your attention is on
somewhere else you're not sure how
did you get there or what are you supposed to
be doing then you remember that
you are meditating and what is supposed to
you must be with your object of meditation
remember that is the first part of the
mindfulness definition yes
you abandon your thought about the
distraction and you relax a bit you can
observe that there is a clenched mental fist
enveloping that feeling or thought
you can also observe that you don't like
you want it to go away but the more
you want it to disappear bigger and
distraction becomes intense
so your mind is distracted on this
itching this pain this thought like
process that happens and you start to see
how your mind moves from one thing to
another do not think about it but observe
carefully how the process happens
we are talking here about analyzing by
what happens something just watch it
what's happening look at the way
that the mind moves and reacts in the
Present
that's the second part of attention
full truth is that when there is a
feeling there it is
it's good that it's there you're going to have
thoughts and feelings that
distract and that's fine
thoughts are not your enemies they are
opportunities every thought every
feeling every sensation that arises and
distracts your mind also causes tension
the first noble truth is that there is
suffering the second noble truth is
that suffering is caused by
I wish the third noble truth is that
there is the cessation of suffering the fourth
noble truth is that there is a way
towards the cessation of this suffering
path is the eightfold path this tension
is the way by which you can
recognize the very beginning of desire and
as you already know the second noble truth
says that desire is the cause of
suffering life is not suffering
desire is what produces it
distractions tell you what you crave
the things you are attached to see and
understand what you like and what you don't
you like is the first step to leave
those attachments
your brain has two contained lobes
in three membranes called meninges is
like a bag wrapped around you
brain and spine every time
there is a distraction there is a movement
perceptible in the brain a tension or
oppression and brain seems some
will disagree with this but
fact you can feel something at first
person who begins to expand against
this membrane thought makes
arises this tension or rigidity that in
we can actually observe for ourselves
yourself every time you notice this tension and
stiffness try to relax and gently
loosen you with intention to this
experience when relaxing you are
releasing the longing we will talk more about
This when we get to six R's
when longing is released there is a
slight sensation of expansion in your
head right after you relax
you will notice that your mind is very calm
and calm your mind is alert and there is no
thoughts right now you have a
pure mind brings that pure mind of
return to your object of meditation
feeling of loving kindness and the
smile
warm radiant and happy feeling
now make another wish for your happiness
with that feeling in your heart and
radiate that happy feeling to you
same no matter how many times
distract your attention from thoughts and
the sensations do not go away
first time you notice them and that's how it is
well as these distractions
come back again and again you will get acquainted
more and more with how they arise with
practice your intensity and frequency
obstacles will decrease the buddha spoke
about five obstacles to
meditation the obstacles are
distractions that will take you away from your
meditation object 5 troublemakers who
they will surely come to visit you every
distraction is based on at least one of
the five obstacles often come two
or three at the same time and the five ally
obstacles are
sensual desire i like that too
known as lustful mind or
greedy you cling to things that are
nice and you will want more this will cause
attachment to pleasant states of mind
that have arisen in the past and the desire
that pleasant states arise in the
future 2 anger dislike fear dislike
that you will want to move away mental states that
you don't like them or maybe
you experience fear or anger
unpleasant or painful feelings
that have already arisen you will try to push away and
control whatever causes you
pain you will even try to force your
mind to experience things in a
certain way you think it is
correct when it really should
just observe what is
present all this is excessively
controller 3 sloth and torpor ennui and
drowsiness
this will cause lack of effort and
determination since you have lost interest
in your meditation object
you will experience brain fog when
you look closely you really see that there is
stiffness and tension even in the
drowsiness is present
4 restlessness with restlessness the
nervousness restlessness you want
move and change constantly do
something different from what you're doing
be somewhere other than here
Restlessness can manifest as
very strong and unpleasant feelings
in body and mind
5
you are not sure you are following the
instructions correctly or even if
this is the correct practice
makes you feel insecure about yourself
It can even manifest as a
lack of confidence in teaching
buddha or your teacher or both when
obstacles arise your work is not
neither that you like nor fight with
them your job is to accept them
invite them in and sign
open exclamation offer them a cup
of tea do not feed them with your attention
force and not want them to be there alone
gives them the attention they crave and
it makes them stronger that's what happens
with concentration meditation on a
single point you move away the obstacles
practicing intense concentration
however as soon as you stop
meditate come back sometimes even more
strong if you just let the obstacles
be there turning your attention to something
let the energy inherent in it be healthy
they will gradually fade away
they will disappear like a fire that stays
out of fuel this is how to overcome the
obstacles forever fire
it just turns off
in pali nirvana translates as neon or
ivana or fire no fire no craving without
obstacles the six R's now
we will give specific instructions on
how to work with obstacles in the
the way the buddha taught imagine by
a moment to the bodhisattva resting
under the rose apple tree when I was
a child was not serious or tense
I was having fun watching the festival
his father at that time he came to a
been nice hannah just like
indicates in those you are with a mind
lightly could reach a very
calm and conscious later in the
eve of his enlightenment after
have tried all methods
meditation and body exercises
they knew each other in india at that time
remembered that state and realized
that this simple state this state
calm conscious and happy was the
key to achieve awakening but how
pass this on when i was teaching
the buddha worked largely with
uneducated farmers and tradesmen
I had to have a practice without
and effective that it was easy and it will work
quickly had to have a method
by which everyone could
experience the path and the benefits
by themselves easily and
you want to see clearly it's easy
lighten up have fun exploring
relax and smile relax and smile at you
leads to a happier practice
interesting that sounds like a great
advice but how do you do it when you
you have lost in the distraction and
lose your smile just follow these
steps 1
recognize recognize that the attention of
the mind has drifted and that
you are lost in your thoughts
forgotten what you were doing no longer
you are in your meditation object 2
release your attachment to thought
or the feeling leaving the
distraction by not paying more attention
just stop feeding him
take distance about it 3 relax
relax any tension or oppression
remaining caused by that distraction 4
smile again
smile with that smile on your lips and in
your heart feels that happy feeling
loving kindness again
and return or redirect ritter
gently redirect attention
mind and bring it back to the object of
meditation is to say meta goodness
loving continues with a light mind and
pick up and stay with your object of
meditation 6 repeat repeat all this
practice cycle repeat this practice
whenever your attention wanders from
its object of meditation we call everything
this the six erres is deduced
directly from the text of the routes that
part of the right effort
first four r's are the four
correct efforts and the last two
erres remind you that you must return and
repeat if necessary note
that you never reject anything you never try
control nothing try to control is
use longing to kill longing
but please don't do the six R's and
you feel a slight background noise or a
lower bodily sensation while
keep up your good feeling
loving stay with that feeling and
let me dig in ignore those little
background distractions as a beginner
the six R's only if your attention has been
completely gone from the object in the
explanation of the eightfold path in the su
you are one of the components is the
right effort right effort and
all six R's are exactly the same
thing that is the right effort one
you notice that a noxious state has arisen
you two stop paying attention to that one
harmful sensation allowing it to be
there by herself without forcing her to
go nor clinging to her three
times a healthy feeling
you stay in that feeling
healthy 6 r's simply
they add the return
ritter and on repeat repeat for
complete the cycle by repeating the cycle
of the 6 r's over and over again
we practice the right effort we see and
we experience for ourselves
What is suffering and how to alleviate it?
you realize what makes you
get tense and rigid and then as it comes
to Caesar by releasing the
relaxation and evoking an object
healthy you discover how to exercise the
direct path to the feeling of
suffering
this happens every time you recognize
recognize and release
a feeling that arises you relax
relax and smile again
three emails note the relief when
you observe the benefits exposed in the
his is talking about the lady there is a
phrase that says that the lady is
immediately effective when you practice
the six erres meet this
affirmation when you release tension or
stiffness caused by distraction
you immediately experience the third
noble truth the cessation of suffering
in other words you are purifying the
mind relaxing you and letting go of the
suffering
you can see this for yourself later
arouses is a beneficial feeling
smiling and carrying mental attention
back to goal that is a feeling
healthy you don't need to practice
for long periods months or years
in order to feel relief you can see what
right after the step relax relax of
the six erres you can notice that instant
of pure mind free from craving by repeating
the six R's over and over again when removing
the obstacles to care that are your
fuel at the end replace us all
unhealthy mental habits
others healthy this way only
arouse the healthy states and finally
you will achieve the cessation of suffering for
to succeed in meditation you must
develop your ability to
mindfulness and power of observation
It is also important to keep the sense
of fun and exploration this helps
to improve your mindfulness
six R's training
develop these skills that are so
c-sections sometimes people say that this
practice is simpler than
thought some have complained to
teacher why do you want this
meditation more complicated now
Let's see each of the steps with more
depth recognize recognize the
mindfulness remember to observe and
recognize the movements of attention
of the mind from one thing to another that is to say
from the object of meditation to the
distraction this observation realizes
of any movement of attention
of the mind to move away from the object of
meditation one may notice a slight
tension or rigidity when the attention of
the mind begins to move towards
emergent phenomenon can occur
pleasant or painful feelings in
any of the six gates of the
senses any form visual sound
smell taste touch or thought can
cause a distraction with careful
observation without judgments you will notice a
slight feeling of tension that arises
both in the mind and in the brain
self recognize mental movement
at the beginning is vital for a meditation
successful then continue asia
and release release when a problem arises.
thought about something liberal let him
that is there without paying more attention
the content of the distraction is not
important at all but the mechanics
how it came about if it's important don't
analyze or try to find out why
it's here let it be there don't
pay attention without your attention
mind distraction loses energy and
it disappears when you don't keep your
attention on it ceases distraction and
the mental talk about it then the
mindfulness reminds the meditator
who should relax relax after
release thought and allow what
either without trying to observe it or
getting involved in it remains a tension or
subtle and barely perceptible stiffness in the
mind and body to eliminate this
remaining tension
the buddha introduced the relaxation step
results call the relaxation step
reassure body formation this
it happens especially in the head which is
part of your body means to relax your
attention in thought and around
East
It's more than just letting this go
actively relax loosens and loosens
allowing the distraction to be there
which weakens its power
little by little it disappears completely
yes alone please this step is not for me
is the most important part of this
Meditation is the missing step of the one who
we talked about in the introduction is the key
of progress without performing this step
relaxation every time you get distracted from
your object of meditation
you will experience firsthand the cessation
from the rigidity caused by longing
you will feel the relief while the tension
is relaxing remembers that the longing
always manifests first as a
tension or rigidity both in your mind and
in your body the relax step gives you a
kind of mundane nirvana you have a
momentary opportunity to see and
experience true nature
relief of stress and suffering
when you perform the steps of release and
relax mindfulness continues
reminding you to smile again
smile if you have listened to the talks of the
lady on our website you may
remember
heard about how smiling is
an important aspect of meditation
learn to smile and lift slightly
the corners of the mouth helps the
mind to be observant alert agile and
bright get serious tense up or
frowning makes the mind wander
become heavy and your attention becomes
dull and slow the comprehensions
become more difficult to see what
curbs your understanding of the dam to return
ritter redirects your mind back to your
meditation object gently redirects
the mind and do not force it to return
before it's ready you have this one
harmonious movement a movement
timely and not forced repeat repeat
repeat this entire cycle of practice
As many times as needed
Stay with your item until you
misdirections and then go through the
six you are the spiritual friend during
the first ten minutes of your session
radiate loving kindness to you
wrap yourself in that happy feeling and
quiet using the instructions
previous
the rest of the session radiates
loving and kind thoughts towards a
spiritual friend who is a friend
spiritual
now we will select our next
meditation object spiritual friend
it is very important that they are people
live of the same sex and are not
members of your family when the friend
spiritual is of a different sex can
provoke feelings of lust and this
complicate your experience this is the way
traditional way of teaching me is kindness
loving if this instruction does not suit you
well just make sure the person
that you select does not generate you
feelings of lust when radiating
it's loving kindness remember you will pass
a lot of time with this person your friend
spiritual should be someone to whom
you deeply respect and want your
well honestly it is someone who makes you
smile when you think of him or her
can be a teacher or counselor
favorite who knows your highest goals
can be a friend who always
back and support in everything you do
please do not use a member of your
family as a spiritual friend because
family members are over
close to you family members
will be incorporated into your practice more
go ahead but for now you can raise
hidden problems that interfere with the
practice initially we want to keep
this easy and without complications
you irradiate a person who is dead
the feeling will not arise correctly
Since you can't set a
personal connection
you can formulate your friend's wish
spiritual in this way while
I feel this happiness in myself that
be happy and be at peace wrap the
in the feeling of loving kindness
place them in the center of your heart and
are rails while you are doing this
the feeling will continue
wishing them the best and seeing them in your
insight but don't put too much
emphasis on the actual mental image of
they some people are very good
to visualize and others simply not
you have to know who they are and what they
you wish the best the phrases are a way
to activate the feeling evoke the
sensation
and that desire directs your attention to
feeling itself remember that your object
of meditation is the feeling stay
with that feeling and let it grow no
you force it simply stimulates it a
little sooner or later the feeling
will fade when this happens repeat
the phrases again it is not useful to repeat
sentences quickly that makes it
feel very mechanical and the phrases
sincerely and rest a few moments
the feeling some people
they ask are we sending this
outward feeling towards friend
the friend does not send anything only
we are seeing our friend in the
center of our hearts and we wish that
be happy we are not shipping
telegraphing or mailing
express these feelings when a
candle radiates heat and light is radiating
deliberately outwards does not radiate
outward 'cause that's nature
of heat and light
In the same way we surround and submerge
our friend in this feeling
wishing him the same and seeing him smiling
and happy this process is a combination
of three things that arise the feeling
radiant in your heart
the mental phrase and image of yourself
or your spiritual friend around the
75% of your attention should be on the
irradiation of sentiment 20% in
feel the desire and just a little let's say
5% to visualize your friend
spiritual
some people think they should
make visualization the part
most important part of his practice then he
complain of feeling stiff in the head
this is because they are forcing
too much the idea of seeing his friend
spiritual the teacher will tell them to stop
of trying so hard to visualize your
friend because the most important part of
goal is the sensation of radiating the
feeling having a sincere desire to
happiness for your spiritual friend and
then feel that happiness if it hurts you
head or feel pressure
you're trying too hard smile again
and relax a bit when you imagine your
spiritual friend try to see it
smiling and happy remember to keep a
little smile on your lips during
the entire meditation session if you see that
you don't smile that will be a reminder to
smile again make another wish and
send a kind sentiment to your friend
your face is not used to smiling
so be patient you may even
your cheeks hurt a little but you
you will get used to it and that discomfort will pass
please do not criticize yourself for forgetting you
laugh critical thoughts about
anything are unhealthy and
lead to more suffering if you see that you
you're feeling sorry for you
yourself for having forgotten to smile
then laugh at yourself for having one
such a crazy mind understands that everyone
we have a crazy mind and that's alright
have this madness laugh with yourself at
this meditation is supposed to
it's funny remember smile and laugh
when you get stuck again later
start again with your object
meditation life is a game for
play so make everything light and
have fun as long as it takes
practice but that's why you're
doing this practice plays with the
things and don't take them too seriously
seriously this is a serious meditation but
we don't want you to be serious your mind no
it must be too serious rather it must
be light and exalted smile and if that
it doesn't work then laugh a little
should help you get back to that state
happier and more attentive mind you will use the
same spiritual friend all the time
until the teacher
that you can change this can be some
days or weeks if you practice for your
bill
contact us through the website and
let us help you be part of
our yahoo discussion group
the longer you can stay in the
present happy and content feeling
happiness with your spiritual friend more
soon you will be able to move on to the next step of
meditation you can always
contact us through our site
website for guidance once you
you have established yourself as a good friend
spiritual stay with that person yes
you change from one person to another
practice will not mature
deepen sometimes meditators
want to send meta to other people or to
all beings this is just a form
subtle of your mind being distracted by
start you have to stay with the same
friend so you can build your
collection or collection we replace
the word concentration by the word
recollection to help clarify that no
we are forcing our minds to
stay on a single object
meditation in a forced and fixed way
we want our mind to rest
slightly on the object if your mind
rambles uses the six r's when not
no distractions no need
make no effort to maintain
mind in its meditation object
it just stands there by itself
this is really an amazing process
to see again there may be occasions
in which some thoughts arise and
random sensations while you are with
your object of meditation but they are not what
strong enough that
completely divert your attention from
this when this happens ignores the and
keep your meditation object
these thoughts and distractions
they will disappear on their own there is no need to
Apply the six R's so let's review
sit for a minimum of 30 minutes on
why will be explained later
begins radiating thoughts and
kind and happy wishes to yourself
for about 10 minutes now move to your
chosen spiritual friend for the rest
of your session at least 20 minutes and
radiate kind and happy thoughts
for the rest of the session stay
with the same friend and do not change to another
thing or person even if you think
deserve your attention such wishes are
only distractions the mind can be
very cunning uses the six beings to
overcome distractions when
feeling of goal begins to be made
stronger realize and immerse yourself in the
smile and let it unfold on its own
only if you realize that verbalizes
subtly phrases and verbalization
starts to cause some loose tension
the verbalization and just feel your
I wish this will allow the feeling
get even stronger stay with him
feeling and just stays in
the present without pressing it lean
to him
it will take time to master this practice
In a sense this is a kind of
don't do you are not controlling or forcing
the feeling you just are
steering smoothly if there is tension in
your body for trying to radiate what
so you're doing too much
effort simply must exist the
wish for happiness in the same way
that you wish someone good luck in
a trip you stand up and greet him
when he's leaving you don't stand up
and you try to release the feeling to
to reach him or her in a way
similar with meta meditation
just smile and wish this
feeling of loving kindness after
do the six R's and get the hang of it
an obstacle will arise
finally you reapply the six
you make mistakes and take away the little attention that
remained and completely disappeared
longing is removed for the first time has been
gone a small amount of longing for
never rise again as
result of the disappearance of
obstacle arises joy and for the first
time you are experiencing the first gray hair
calm conscious
more to go as you progress in
this path as you go
practice you will realize that joy
is there it can be in the form of
get goosebumps like a
shuddering or just feeling
the emotion that arises a feeling
nice and quiet will follow you to
as your confidence deepens
strengthen and understand that what you are
doing is right
you will also notice that there is a state of
much deeper mental silence than
that I have never experienced before is
as if someone had turned off the
refrigerator that you had not even given
account before it was on
you may realize that you don't
you feel parts of your body unless
put your attention on them this is a
normal development as your body
begins to lose tension and stiffness and
it indicates progress eventually as
that deepens the feeling of goodness
love can arise in your head never
try to control the feeling if
he wants to move there let him move now
you have become a meditator
advanced when this happens you will be
ready for the next step
meditation practice contact us at
through our website
we'll talk about that here since that's a
advanced practice and requires more
instructions you are now on the way to
through conscious desire
quiet until you get to the experience
of awakening forgiveness meditation
there may be some of you
have difficulties in arousing and
keep the good feeling
loving even after following all
instructions and guidance here
we give you may be formulating a sentence
to be happy to be happy and this
causes hatred or aversion towards one to arise
I don't deserve it myself I'm not a good
person can arise in your mind even
tests with the six is received is that
it doesn't really work there is no goodness
loving there your heart just not
can feel and is dry and maybe hard
perhaps the practice of meditation of the
Sorry I helped you with this we have given ourselves
account that a not so small percentage
of students benefit greatly
to change to forgiveness in which
Radiate forgiveness towards yourself and
forgive all that arises and as
some people
they appear in your mind you forgive them
until they forgive you you can
find more information about this
practice on sugar lady website
and in a book called Meditation of the
sorry the bank I saw you malara mbps and
to forgive is to let go of the past and
soften our minds all can
benefit from practicing forgiveness
made the guide book for meditation
of forgiveness is now included at the end
of this book walking meditation a
important part of goal practice
is walking meditation please no
after sessions that are more and more
long
you can use walking meditation to
develop energy or set tone in your
mind before sitting down if you are sleepy
or low energy at times when your mind
is distracted walking will make it more
easy to calm a restless mind so that
you can go back to sitting meditation
walking the other way can add
energy to your session by having your
blood flow walking meditation is
a powerful meditation on its own
but along with meta meditation you
helps to incorporate goal in your life and in
your daily activities remember that
This is a practice to do all the time.
time find a place to walk
that has at least 30 steps and is straight
and level walks at a normal pace as
if you were taking a walk by
park on a sunday afternoon
slowly like a turtle but at a
speed that is not even too fast
nor too slow your eyes should be
directed downwards in front of you from 6 to
10 feet ahead don't pay attention
at your feet
instead stay with your friend
spiritual please don't look at your
around as that will distract you from your
meditation this is not a walk down
nature but part of practice
in which you radiate kind thoughts and
happy to your spiritual friend in the
as much as possible keep that practice
all the time you are walking is
Like when you're sitting with the only one
difference that you're walking in
instead of sitting you can do it
inside or outside weather permitting
better to do it outdoors but try
to avoid the heat of sunlight
direct you can also walk inside in
a circular path in a room or
down a corridor some meditators
progress a lot while walking can
be pretty deep don't take this
instruction lightly as it is a
important part of practice too
helps us learn how to practice meta
in our daily life where we are
busiest in the world walks during
about 15 to 30 minutes and
never more than an hour since walking
it will tire your body so much
however walk at a good pace so that
in the end you feel your heart beat with
strength and you may even lack a
little breath then you can sit
to meditate and be fully alert
walking can bring calm clarity or
energy depending on what you need
at that time continues 30 minutes of
meditation a day is the minimum for
start according to our experience leads
15 to 20 minutes for the mind to calm down
so he's giving you another ten
productive minutes where you really
you can look and observe 45 minutes is
better just the fact of being seated and
not moving allows the mind
calm down the longer you sit
the more your mind will calm itself without
that you have to do anything else for it
both sit longer and not move
is vital to move towards states more
deep during a retreat at the beginning
you will sit at least 30 minutes
you will walk 15 minutes and then you will sit down
again alternating like this all day
your sessions will become more and more
long during the retreat and finally
They can last up to two or three hours in
your daily life sit twice a day
it is very useful once you feel comfortable
try to be completely calm
during the entire period that you are
sitting if the mind insists on moving
apply the six you are to the desire to move
the six R's are very useful for
dissolve the tension and find a greater
well-being if pain arises observe how
arises you can know if the pain is from
realizing what's going on
when you get up from the session
the pain goes away very quickly
a meditative pain that is indeed
a mental pain and it is not caused by anything
harmful is just a distraction yeah
come back when you feel
stand still and apply the six
you're wrong when you get up the pain
persist and stay with you is better
that you don't feel like this in the future
because then it really is a pain
physical that is manifesting if
we try to get rid of them
painful or unpleasant feelings
forcefully whether mental or physical
we just add more greed and
aversion to the mind it feeds the
vicious circle of samsara however
if we approach a feeling
unpleasant openly and without taking it
as something personal we see these
harmful qualities with attention
healthy this pure and clear conscience
Gradually dilute that feeling
disturbing also you may notice that
the feeling persists but your attitude
towards this has changed if you are sleepy
sitting meditating inside a space
closed try to sit outside but no
straight into the sun
open air tends to wake you even
you can try to practice
walk backwards after walking
30 steps forward instead of
turn around
just walk back to the
starting point meditation and its
benefits increase if you can continue
cultivating awareness throughout the
day
smile and send goal whenever you
remember when you notice that they arise
difficult feelings apply the
Six R's I accept with a sense of
fun and humor about how crazy
can become the mind if you put
serious and you try to control the mind that
still longing may wear you out
if you get frustrated then do this with
lightness but with the greatest continuity
possible apply goal in everything you can put
loving kindness in all you do in
radiate well-being and happiness to all
beings when you are away from home yes
Are you going to go for a walk or go shopping?
you need to keep in mind
to your spiritual friend
with the general feeling of goal
smile more be aware and apply the
six erres to any sadness
emotional that arises when they arise
unhealthy mood treats
seeing them as opportunities allows
and brings out the moods
healthy this is the meaning of
right effort in the noble eightfold
buddha path progress and hannah a
as you progress is with meditation
you will see all kinds of new phenomena
joy and other experiences will arise
nice some of them will do well
the effort and time you invested in
practice the first time for real
and completely put aside a
obstacle really and completely
you will have your first experience of
janic state and you'll be on the way
into an even deeper depth
you will start to make friends with things
fun like joy contentment
equanimity and other good times
they are on their way
bram abyara without ivana the wood spoke of
four divine qualities of mind
that are particularly healthy
they are called avian bram so they consist of
loving kindness goal compassion car a
empathetic joy changes into reality
we prefer to call it just joy and
uteca equanimity
this is the practice you are starting
now you will gradually go through all
these states in a very natural way
as meta gets quieter
and become compassion and so
successively in equanimity passing to
through joy you don't need
change the practice as you go
states will develop and emerge
by themselves once you become
in an advanced meditator you just have to
hold meditation the brahm abyara
they develop naturally one by one
without you having to bring up each
of these states as their own object
of differentiated meditation when it arises
the next state then you take that
been either the feeling of
compassion or joy like
object of meditation and then
you continue to radiate that state this is
another important difference from how other
practices make you develop goal
taught that when meditation is
correctly practice all four
divine states arise one after another
you will learn to radiate any of
these four states around six
directions and then in all
directions at the same time when you see
deeply this process you will understand
on a deep personal level that everyone
the aggregates that make up you or the
I are actually impersonal and without
no enduring kind of soul yo
this experience is so deep that
he will make lebanon rise and you will understand the
true nature of all
existence you will have achieved awakening
in this very life you will experience a lot
relief experiencing nirvana awakening
it happens to many people who follow
these simple instructions do not lead
years or decades the buddha said that this
practice is immediately effective in
the sat and patanas utah of my magnet and
calla says that this experience can
take place in just seven years or
even seven days can really
happen that fast we've seen it
happen in a single eight day retreat
now and you can also experience the
initial stages of awakening alone
follow instructions exactly
benefits of loving kindness
kindness meditation practice
loving has many benefits in the
utah it is said that when the
meta meditation falls asleep easy and
deeply do not have nightmares
when you wake up you wake up easy
and quickly people like you
the animals love your face
come back radiant and beautiful you have good
hello these are just some of the
benefits when you practice kindness
loving your mind also becomes clear
and quiet and your progress in the
meditation is very fast goal in life
daily continues to sit and practice
listen to talks read our books and
study more related concepts
with this practice there are many resources in
our website
when starting any new practice
it's usually better to dive into that
practice leaving aside other practices
that you have done in the past until
understand the new practice
and completely otherwise you can
become confused with the various
opinions and practices that exist
remember that we do not base our
teaching in points of view or opinions
but rather in the study of the
sutras themselves and direct experience
from the practice of meditation
We invite you to follow this path too
the best way to experience
deep dive into meditation
understanding of quiet wisdom is
come to a retreat or if you can't do
a getaway make a retreat online with
us visit our website for
more information once you have
mastery in staying with the friend
spiritual there are more instructions for
break the barriers and radiate the
feeling of goal in all
addresses
the teacher will give you those instructions
timely advice when
you're ready this is where you practice
The brama you will see really begins to
take off more phenomena will arise and a
teacher will guide you according to your progress there is
more steps in this practice but they are
advanced and would give for another book
dominates the ability to stay
perfectly with your spiritual friend and
then contact us or simply come to
make a withdrawal with us again
when you are outside in your day to day
remember to smile and radiate goal towards
all beings use the right effort
to recondition your mind take out
bring out the healthy quality of the
loving kindness instead of allowing
mental states of
apathy caught rod in a long tail
to pay we suggest you irradiate goal is
a difficult job being a cashier in a
store so smile at the cashier and leave
friendly stuck in traffic without
to be able to move instead of bothering you
radiate meta to other drivers
apply the six r's to your mind
altered and replaces it with a mind
healthy and elevated places a CD in the
car player and listen to a
chat about the lady to learn more
on the eightfold path of the buddha in
instead of wasting your time carrying a
apathetic life share what you have
learned with other people and let
benefit from your practice
generously this practice once you
words like help you be happier
be the buddha instead of a buddhist no
you can find a group to meditate
yours begins in the area where you live
own as soon as you find another
interested person you will already have a group
meditate for at least 30 minutes
listen to a talk have some tea and
discuss what you have just learned
at that moment you just created your own
little by little group meditation like
drops of water that fill a cup
you will reach the supreme awakening it is possible
do this right now the buddha tells us
do this right now the buddha tells us